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Fundamental limits of repeaterless quantum communications

2017 · Nature Communications · 1,400 citations · 4 from inside this corpus

Stefano Pirandola, Riccardo Laurenza low, Carlo Ottaviani, Leonardo Banchi

Quantum communications promises reliable transmission of quantum information, efficient distribution of entanglement and generation of completely secure keys. For all these tasks, we need to determine the optimal point-to-point rates that are achievable by two remote parties at the ends of a quantum channel, without restrictions on their local operations and classical communication, which can be unlimited and two-way. These two-way assisted capacities represent the ultimate rates that are reachable without quantum repeaters. Here, by constructing an upper bound based on the relative entropy of entanglement and devising a dimension-independent technique dubbed 'teleportation stretching', we establish these capacities for many fundamental channels, namely bosonic lossy channels, quantum-limited amplifiers, dephasing and erasure channels in arbitrary dimension. In particular, we exactly determine the fundamental rate-loss tradeoff affecting any protocol of quantum key distribution. Our findings set the limits of point-to-point quantum communications and provide precise and general benchmarks for quantum repeaters.

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Quantum cryptography20028,477
The quantum internet20085,992
Mixed-state entanglement and quantum error correction19965,425
The security of practical quantum key distribution20093,756
Gaussian quantum information20123,742
Quantum Repeaters: The Role of Imperfect Local Operations in Quantum Communication19983,498
Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution20122,263
Quantifying Entanglement19972,066
Quantum Key Distribution with High Loss: Toward Global Secure Communication20031,829
Teleportation of Continuous Quantum Variables19981,781
The classical-quantum boundary for correlations: Discord and related measures20121,644
Quantum key distribution using gaussian-modulated coherent states20031,474
Continuous Variable Quantum Cryptography Using Coherent States20021,473
Quantum Communication through an Unmodulated Spin Chain20031,447
Entanglement measures and purification procedures19981,441

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Quantum internet: A vision for the road ahead20182,492
Advances in quantum cryptography20201,890
[No title in the source record — White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The Uni…20191,584
Secure quantum key distribution with realistic devices20201,565

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Quantum Information and CryptographyComputer Science
Quantum Computing Algorithms and ArchitectureComputer Science
Quantum Mechanics and ApplicationsPhysics and Astronomy

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