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Practical quantum repeaters with parametric down-conversion sources

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Conventional wisdom suggests that realistic quantum repeaters will require quasi-deterministic sources of entangled photon pairs. In contrast, we here study a quantum repeater architecture that uses simple parametric down-conversion sources, as well as frequency-multiplexed multimode quantum memories and photon-number-resolving detectors. We show that this approach can significantly extend quantum communication distances compared to direct transmission. This shows that important trade-offs are possible between the different components of quantum repeater architectures.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF), the National Engineering and Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the DARPA Quiness program subaward contract number SP0020412-PROJ0005188, under prime contract number W31P4Q-13-1-0004. W.T. is a senior fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. We thank Chris Fuchs for useful discussions on modeling, Matt Shaw for useful discussions on detectors and Jonas Schmöle for graphical support.

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    Present address: Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ), Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, 1090, Vienna, Austria

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  1. Quantum Information Processing Group, Raytheon BBN Technologies, 10 Moulton Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Hari Krovi, Saikat Guha & Zachary Dutton

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute for Quantum Science and Technology, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada

    Joshua A. Slater, Christoph Simon & Wolfgang Tittel

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This paper is part of the topical collection “Quantum Repeaters: From Components to Strategies” guest edited by Manfred Bayer, Christoph Becher and Peter van Loock.

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Krovi, H., Guha, S., Dutton, Z. et al. Practical quantum repeaters with parametric down-conversion sources. Appl. Phys. B 122, 52 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-015-6297-4

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