Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Fault-tolerant quantum repeaters for long-distance quantum communication based on quantum dots

N. Cody Jones, Kristiaan De Greve, Y. Yamamoto

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations

Abstract

We present a proposal for a quantum repeater which uses fault-tolerant quantum error correction to overcome decoherence limitations to creating long-distance entanglement between quantum dot spin qubits.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_at.2012.jw3i.5

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