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Fault-tolerant quantum repeaters with minimal physical resources, and implementations based on single photon emitters

L. I. Childress, J. M. Taylor, A. S. Sorensen, M. D. Lukin

abstract: We analyze a novel method that uses fixed, minimal physical resources to achieve generation and nested purification of quantum entanglement for quantum communication over arbitrarily long distances, and discuss its implementation using realistic photon emitters and photonic channels. In this method, we use single photon emitters with two internal degrees of freedom formed by an electron spin and a nuclear spin to build intermediate nodes in a quantum channel. State-selective fluorescence is used for probabilistic entanglement generation between electron spins in adjacent nodes. We analyze in detail several approaches which are applicable to realistic, homogeneously broadened single photon emitters. Furthermore, the coupled electron and nuclear spins can be used to efficiently implement entanglement swapping and purification. We show that these techniques can be combined to generate high-fidelity entanglement over arbitrarily long distances. We present a specific protocol that functions in polynomial time and tolerates percent-level errors in entanglement fidelity and local operations. The scheme has the lowest requirements on physical resources of any current scheme for fully fault-tolerant quantum repeaters.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0502112
categories:
quant-ph
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.052330
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0502112
created:
2005-02-18

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