TY - GEN
T1 - Distribution of entanglement in two-dimensional square grid network
AU - Kaur, Eneet
AU - Guha, Saikat
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - We study entanglement generation in a quantum network where repeater nodes can perform n-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger(GHZ) swaps, i.e., projective measurements, to fuse n imperfect-Fidelity entangled-state fragments. We show that the distance-independent entanglement distribution rate found previously for this protocol, assuming perfectly-entangled states at the link level, does not survive. This is true also in the modified protocol we study - one that spatially constrains the repeater nodes involved in the swaps. We obtain analytical formulas for a GHZ swap of multiple Werner states, which might be of independent interest. Whether the distance-independent entanglement rate might re-emerge with a spatio-temporally-optimized scheduling of GHZ swaps and multi-site block-distillation codes, remains open.
AB - We study entanglement generation in a quantum network where repeater nodes can perform n-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger(GHZ) swaps, i.e., projective measurements, to fuse n imperfect-Fidelity entangled-state fragments. We show that the distance-independent entanglement distribution rate found previously for this protocol, assuming perfectly-entangled states at the link level, does not survive. This is true also in the modified protocol we study - one that spatially constrains the repeater nodes involved in the swaps. We obtain analytical formulas for a GHZ swap of multiple Werner states, which might be of independent interest. Whether the distance-independent entanglement rate might re-emerge with a spatio-temporally-optimized scheduling of GHZ swaps and multi-site block-distillation codes, remains open.
KW - entanglement generation
KW - quantum networks
KW - swapping
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U2 - 10.1109/QCE57702.2023.00130
DO - 10.1109/QCE57702.2023.00130
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering, QCE 2023
SP - 1154
EP - 1164
BT - Proceedings - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering, QCE 2023
A2 - Muller, Hausi
A2 - Alexev, Yuri
A2 - Delgado, Andrea
A2 - Byrd, Greg
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 4th IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering, QCE 2023
Y2 - 17 September 2023 through 22 September 2023
ER -