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All-photonic quantum repeaters

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Azuma, Koji, Tamaki, Kiyoshi, Lo, Hoi-Kwong·2015·Nature Communications

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Quantum communication holds promise for unconditionally secure transmission of secret messages and faithful transfer of unknown quantum states. Photons appear to be the medium of choice for quantum communication. Owing to photon losses, robust quantum communication over long lossy channels requires quantum repeaters. It is widely believed that a necessary and highly demanding requirement for quantum repeaters is the existence of matter quantum memories. Here we show that such a requirement is, in fact, unnecessary by introducing the concept of all-photonic quantum repeaters based on flying qubits. In particular, we present a protocol based on photonic cluster-state machine guns and a loss-tolerant measurement equipped with local high-speed active feedforwards. We show that, with such all-photonic quantum repeaters, the communication efficiency scales polynomially with the channel distance. Our result paves a new route towards quantum repeaters with efficient single-photon sources rather than matter quantum memories.

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Authors
Azuma, K., Tamaki, K., & Lo, H.-K.
Affiliations
  • NTT (Japan) (JP)
  • University of Toronto (CA)
Corresponding author
Azuma, Koji
Venue
Nature Communications
Published
2015-04-15
Volume
6
Issue
1
Pages
6787-6787
ISSN
2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2006376335
Cited by
583
References
55
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27.80
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (21102008)
  • Iran Telecommunication Research Center
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum optics and atomic interactions
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
Keywords
quantum repeaters, flying qubits, photonic cluster states, machine guns, single-photon sources, quantum memory, long-distance quantum communication, photon loss, communication efficiency

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