2025/04/25 by Naphan Benchasattabuse, Michal Hajdušek, Benchasattabuse, Naphan +3 · 1 voice
Computer Science · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Optical Network Technologies #Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2504.18121
openalex publication_date 2025/04/25 · arxiv published 2025/04/25 · arxiv updated 2025/04/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
We propose a purification-enhanced all-photonic quantum repeater scheme based on repeater graph states (RGS) framework that leverages the recently proposed half-RGS building block. This framework addresses a longstanding open question--how to naturally integrate entanglement purification with an all-photonic scheme--by enabling long-distance purification without disrupting the core design. Our framework utilizes optimistic purification performed directly on the half-RGS primitives across long distances without waiting for heralding outcomes. The overhead is modest: the RGS generation slows down proportionally with the number of purification rounds, and each round requires only one additional quantum emitter per half-RGS source. However, since the generation time is negligible compared to the end-to-end communication delay, the total latency remains effectively dominated by communication time, similar to frameworks without purification. Our framework enables flexible purification scheduling along the connection path, making it compatible with memory-based strategies, a rich body of research on purification scheduling and optimization that was previously thought inapplicable to the RGS scheme. Through numerical evaluation, we compare the performance of our framework with purification between memories at end nodes.