Long-distance entanglement distribution using individual atoms in optical cavities

J. Borregaard, P. Kómár, E. M. Kessler, M. D. Lukin, and A. S. Sørensen
Phys. Rev. A 92, 012307 – Published 8 July 2015

Abstract

Individual atoms in optical cavities can provide an efficient interface between stationary qubits and flying qubits (photons), which is an essential building block for quantum communication. Furthermore, cavity-assisted controlled-not (cnot) gates can be used for swapping entanglement to long distances in a quantum repeater setup. Nonetheless, dissipation introduced by the cavity during the cnot may increase the experimental difficulty in obtaining long-distance entanglement distribution using these systems. We analyze and compare a number of cavity-based repeater schemes combining various entanglement generation schemes and cavity-assisted cnot gates. We find that a scheme, where high-fidelity entanglement is first generated in a two-photon detection scheme and then swapped to long distances using a recently proposed heralded controlled-Z (cz) gate, exhibits superior performance compared to the other schemes. The heralded gate moves the effect of dissipation from the fidelity to the success probability of the gate thereby enabling high-fidelity entanglement swapping. As a result, high-rate entanglement distribution can be achieved over long distances even for low cooperativities of the atom-cavity systems. This high-fidelity repeater is shown to outperform the other cavity-based schemes by up to two orders of magnitude in the rate for realistic parameters and large distances (1000 km).

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  • Received 14 April 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.012307

©2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

J. Borregaard1,2, P. Kómár2, E. M. Kessler2,3, M. D. Lukin2, and A. S. Sørensen1

  • 1The Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
  • 2Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
  • 3ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

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Vol. 92, Iss. 1 — July 2015

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