All-photonic quantum repeaters

Koji Azuma (), Kiyoshi Tamaki and Hoi-Kwong Lo
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Koji Azuma: NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation
Kiyoshi Tamaki: NTT Basic Research Laboratories, NTT Corporation
Hoi-Kwong Lo: Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Control, University of Toronto

Nature Communications, 2015, vol. 6, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract 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.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7787

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