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Measurement-based quantum repeaters employ entanglement distillation and swapping across links using locally prepared resource states of minimal size and local Bell measurements. In this Letter, we introduce a systematic protocol for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Yu Shi , Ashlesha Patil , Saikat Guha

Entanglement purification allows the creation of qubit pairs of arbitrarily high fidelity with respect to a maximally entangled state, starting from a larger number of low-fidelity pairs. Purification requires quantum memory, a role for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Adrian Auer , Guido Burkard

Entanglement-based quantum key distribution (QKD) relies on the distribution of high-fidelity maximally entangled Bell states, typically generated via spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). In practical systems, unwanted relative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ayan Kumar Nai , G. K. Samanta

In this letter, we propose a method of dark count correction in quantum state tomography of entangled photon pairs. The framework is based on a linear model of dark counts, which is imposed on the measurement formalism. The method is tested…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Artur Czerwinski

We investigate the amount of communication that must augment classical local hidden variable models in order to simulate the behaviour of entangled quantum systems. We consider the scenario where a bipartite measurement is given from a set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gilles Brassard , Richard Cleve , Alain Tapp

We demonstrate the first on-chip deterministic entanglement purification based on silicon photonics. To evaluate the purification performance, we simulate the bit-flip and phase-flip errors by reconfigurable circuits on chip. The state…

Quantum network applications impose a variety of requirements on entanglement resources in terms of rate, fidelity, latency, and more. The repeaters in the quantum network must combine good methods for entanglement generation, effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Sijie Cheng , Narayanan Rengaswamy

Quantum networking protocols, including quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping, use linear-optical Bell state measurements for heralding the distribution and transfer of quantum information. However, a linear-optical Bell state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Joshua Akin , Yunlei Zhao , Paul G. Kwiat , Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt , Kejie Fang

Exquisite quantum control has now been achieved in small ion traps, in nitrogen-vacancy centres and in superconducting qubit clusters. We can regard such a system as a universal cell with diverse technological uses from communication to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 Naomi H. Nickerson , Joseph F. Fitzsimons , Simon C. Benjamin

We describe an optimized, self-correcting procedure for the Bayesian inference of pure quantum states. By analyzing the history of measurement outcomes at each step, the procedure returns the most likely pure state, as well as the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-14 Amir Kalev , Itay Hen

The essence of quantum error-correction is to use redundant Hilbert space to identify and correct errors, and the channel fidelity of the quantum channel does not affect which errors can be identified and corrected. Based on this, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Long Huang , Xiaohua Wu , Tao Zhou

Entanglement lies at the heart of quantum information science, serving as a key resource for quantum communication, computation, and metrology. Consequently, high-precision entangled state preparation and efficient verification are…

In [J. C. Howell and J. A. Yeazell, Phys. Rev. A 62, 012102 (2000)], a proposal is made to generate entangled macroscopically distinguishable states of two spatially separated traveling optical modes. We model the decoherence due to light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 J. Clausen , L. Knoell , D. -G. Welsch

Entanglement purification protocols promise to play a critical role in the future of quantum networks by distributing entanglement across noisy channels. However, only the security of two-way purification protocols have been closely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Cameron Cianci

Measuring complex properties in quantum systems, such as measures of quantum entanglement and Bell nonlocality, is inherently challenging. Traditional methods, like quantum state tomography (QST), necessitate a full reconstruction of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Patrycja Tulewicz , Karol Bartkiewicz , Adam Miranowicz , Franco Nori

Entanglement purification protocols (EPP) and quantum error-correcting codes (QECC) provide two ways of protecting quantum states from interaction with the environment. In an EPP, perfectly entangled pure states are extracted, with some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Charles H. Bennett , David P. DiVincenzo , John A. Smolin , William K. Wootters

Certifying quantum properties with minimal assumptions is a fundamental problem in quantum information science. Self-testing is a method to infer the underlying physics of a quantum experiment only from the measured statistics. While all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Ivan Šupić , Joseph Bowles , Marc-Olivier Renou , Antonio Acín , Matty J. Hoban

Multipartite entanglement purification is revisited by using the Local operations and classical communications(LOCCs). We demonstrate our idea by considering the tripartite case, i.e. the purification of tripartite entanglement. We express…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-16 Ming Yang , Fei Yan , Zhuo-Liang Cao

In this paper we address the problem of optimal reconstruction of a quantum state from the result of a single measurement when the original quantum state is known to be a member of some specified set. A suitable figure of merit for this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kieran Hunter , Erika Andersson , Claire R. Gilson , Stephen M. Barnett

The entanglement fidelity provides a measure of how well the entanglement between two subsystems is preserved in a quantum process. By using a simple model we show that in some cases this quantity in its original definition fails in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yang Xiang , Shi-Jie Xiong