Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
Error models and error mitigation for long-distance high-fidelity quantum secret sharing
Brent J. Yen, Jeffrey H. Shapiro
Abstract
A quantum communication architecture is being developed for long-distance, high-fidelity transmission and storage of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states. This system uses an ultrabright narrowband source of polarization-entangled photons plus trapped-atom quantum memories, and it is compatible with long-distance transmission over standard telecommunication fiber. An error model for the preceding architecture is derived, and the use of quantum error correction or entanglement purification protocols to improve the performance of this quantum communication system is also discussed.