期刊
IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS
卷 38, 期 3, 页码 619-639出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2020.2969037
关键词
Quantum communication; quantum repeater chains
资金
- QIA project - European Union's Horizon 2020 [820445]
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO/OCW), as part of the Quantum Software Consortium Program [024.003.037 / 3368]
Quantum communication enables a host of applications that cannot be achieved by classical communication means, with provably secure communication as one of the prime examples. The distance that quantum communication schemes can cover via direct communication is fundamentally limited by losses on the communication channel. By means of quantum repeaters, the reach of these schemes can be extended and chains of quantum repeaters could in principle cover arbitrarily long distances. In this work, we provide two efficient algorithms for determining the generation time and fidelity of the first generated entangled pair between the end nodes of a quantum repeater chain. The runtime of the algorithms increases polynomially with the number of segments of the chain, which improves upon the exponential runtime of existing algorithms. Our first algorithm is probabilistic and can analyze refined versions of repeater chain protocols which include intermediate entanglement distillation. Our second algorithm computes the waiting time distribution up to a pre-specified truncation time, has faster runtime than the first one and is moreover exact up to machine precision. Using our proof-of-principle implementation, we are able to analyze repeater chains of thousands of segments for some parameter regimes. The algorithms thus serve as useful tools for the analysis of large quantum repeater chain protocols and topologies of the future quantum internet.
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