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arXiv:quant-ph/0508022 · Physical Review Letters

Improved Transfer of Quantum Information Using a Local Memory

Vittorio Giovannetti, Daniel Klaus Burgarth

Published Jan 25, 2006• 80 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate that the quantum communication between two parties can be significantly improved if the receiver is allowed to store the received signals in a quantum memory before decoding them. In the limit of an infinite memory, the transfer is perfect. We prove that this scheme allows the transfer of arbitrary multipartite states along Heisenberg chains of spin-1/2 particles with random coupling strengths.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.96.030501

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