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Using 2 km of standard telecom optical fibres, we teleport qubits carried by photons of 1310 nm wavelength to qubits in another lab carried by a photons of 1550 nm wavelength. The photons to be teleported and the necessary entangled photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Gisin , I. Marcikic , H. de Riedmatten , W. Tittel , H. Zbinden

Quantum repeaters are used to overcome the exponential photon loss scaling that quantum states acquire as they are transmitted over long distances. While repeaters for discrete variable encodings of quantum information have existed for some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-08 Josephine Dias , Matthew S. Winnel , William J. Munro , Timothy C. Ralph , Kae Nemoto

Quantum repeaters, which are indispensable for long-distance quantum communication, are necessary for extending the entanglement from short distance to long distance; however, high-rate entanglement distribution, even between adjacent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-26 Daisuke Yoshida , Kazuya Niizeki , Shuhei Tamura , Tomoyuki Horikiri

We propose a realistic protocol to generate entanglement between quantum memories at neighboring nodes in hybrid quantum repeaters. Generated entanglement includes only one type of error, which enables efficient entanglement distillation.…

Within the framework of quantum memory channels we introduce the notion of repeatability of quantum channels. In particular, a quantum channel is called repeatable if there exist a memory device implementing the same channel on each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-10 Tomas Rybar , Mário Ziman

Quantum repeaters incorporating quantum memory play a pivotal role in mitigating loss in transmitted quantum information (photons) due to link attenuation over a long-distance quantum communication network. However, limited availability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Karl C. Linne , Yuanyuan Li , Debashri Roy , Kaushik Chowdhury

Quantum Internet signifies a remarkable advancement in communication technology, harnessing the principles of quantum entanglement and superposition to facilitate unparalleled levels of security and efficient computations. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Mohamed Shaban , Muhammad Ismail

Quantum networks rely on the efficient distribution of entanglement to enable long-distance quantum communication and information processing. A key challenge in these networks is the design of routing protocols capable of maintaining high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Javier Vecino Peñas , Ana Fernández-Vilas , Rebeca P. Díaz-Redondo , Sergio Gándara Gándara , Manuel Fernández-Veiga

High-fidelity quantum entanglement is a key resource for quantum communication and distributed quantum computing, enabling quantum state teleportation, dense coding, and quantum encryption. Any sources of decoherence in the communication…

The distribution of entangled quantum systems among two or more nodes of a network is a key task at the basis of quantum communication, quantum computation and quantum cryptography. Unfortunately the transmission lines used in this…

The maximum distance of quantum communication is limited due to the photon loss and detector noise. Exploiting entanglement swapping, quantum relay could offer ways to extend the achievable distance by increasing the signal to noise ratio.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 An-Ning Zhang , Yu-Ao Chen , Chao-Yang Lu , Xiao-Qi Zhou , Zhi Zhao , Qiang Zhang , Tao Yang , Jian-Wei Pan

Decoherence is detrimental to quantum key distribution (QKD) over large distances. One of the proposed solutions is to use quantum repeaters, which divide the total distance between the users into smaller segments to minimise the effects of…

Original quantum repeater protocols based on single-photon interference suffer from phase noise of the channel, which makes the long-distance quantum communication infeasible. Fortunately, two-photon interference type quantum repeaters can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-08 Zhen-Qiang Yin , Yi-Bo Zhao , Yong Yang , Zheng-Fu Han , Guang-Can Guo

Quantum communication holds a promise for absolutely secure transmission of secret messages and faithful transfer of unknown quantum states. Photonic channels appear to be very attractive for physical implementation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lu-Ming Duan , Mikhail Lukin , Ignacio Cirac , Peter Zoller

The efficient generation of high-fidelity entangled states is the key element for long-distance quantum communication, quantum computation and other quantum technologies, and at the same time the most resource-consuming part in many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Ferran Riera Sàbat , Pavel Sekatski , Alexander Pirker , Wolfgang Dür

The optimal performance of a communication network is limited not only by the quality of point-to-point channels, but by the efficacy of its constituent technologies. Understanding the limits of quantum networks requires an understanding of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Cillian Harney , Stefano Pirandola

Quantum repeaters are proposed to overcome exponential photon loss over distance in fibers. One-way quantum repeaters eliminate the need for two-way classical communications, which can potentially outperform quantum memory based quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-11 Yisheng Lei

We propose a hybrid quantum repeater based on ancillary coherent field states and material qubits coupled to optical cavities. For this purpose, resonant qubit-field interactions and postselective field measurements are determined which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-14 J. Z. Bernád

The key realisation which lead to the emergence of the new field of quantum information processing is that quantum mechanics, the theory that describes microscopic particles, allows the processing of information in fundamentally new ways.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Gisin , N. Linden , S. Massar , S. Popescu

Quantum error correction codes based on continuous variables play an important role for the implementation of quantum communication systems. A natural application of such codes occurs within quantum repeater systems which are used to combat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 Pei-Zhe Li , Josephine Dias , William J. Munro , Peter van Loock , Kae Nemoto , Nicoló Lo Piparo