Robust and efficient quantum repeaters with atomic ensembles and linear optics

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Sangouard, Nicolas ^a   Simon, Christoph ^b   Zhao, Bo ^c   Chen, Yu Ao ^c   De Riedmatten, Hugues ^b   Pan, Jian Wei ^c   Gisin, Nicolas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIERS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION REPEATERS;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); ATOMIC ENSEMBLES; ATOMIC EXCITATIONS; EFFICIENT METHODS; ENTANGLEMENT GENERATIONS; HIGH FIDELITY; LINEAR OPTICS; PHASE FLUCTUATIONS; QUANTUM REPEATER PROTOCOL; QUANTUM REPEATERS; TRANSMISSION CHANNELS; TWO PHOTONS;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 44649172755     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.062301     Document Type: Article

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