Nature Communications (May 2016)

Efficient entanglement distillation without quantum memory

  • Daniela Abdelkhalek,
  • Mareike Syllwasschy,
  • Nicolas J. Cerf,
  • Jaromír Fiurášek,
  • Roman Schnabel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11720
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Entanglement distribution between distant parties is an essential component to most quantum communication protocols, but losses and decoherence present in real systems degrade it. Here the authors demonstrate an efficient iterative entanglement distillation protocol that does not rely on quantum memories.