What are single photons good for?

Single-photon device requirements for operating linear optics quantum computing outside the post-selection basis

(2011) Thomas Jennewein et al.   JOURNAL OF MODERN OPTICS

Invited Review Article: Single-photon sources and detectors

(2011) M. D. Eisaman et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS

Quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles and linear optics

(2011) Nicolas Sangouard et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Coherent frequency-down-conversion interface for quantum repeaters

(2010) Noé Curtz et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Linear optical quantum computation with imperfect entangled photon-pair sources and inefficient non–photon-number-resolving detectors

(2010) Yan-Xiao Gong et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Single-photon frequency down-conversion experiment

(2010) Hiroki Takesue   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

Proposal for Implementing Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Based on a Heralded Qubit Amplifier

(2010) Nicolas Gisin et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

High-fidelity transmission of entanglement over a high-loss free-space channel

(2009) Alessandro Fedrizzi et al.   Nature Physics

Robust and efficient quantum repeaters with atomic ensembles and linear optics

(2008) Nicolas Sangouard et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW A

How Good Must Single Photon Sources and Detectors Be for Efficient Linear Optical Quantum Computation?

(2008) Michael Varnava et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS