Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2006-12-19
Physics
Quantum Physics
Accepted for publication in Nature Physics. This is the original submitted version
Scientific paper
Quantum networks are composed of nodes which can send and receive quantum states by exchanging photons. Their goal is to facilitate quantum communication between any nodes, something which can be used to send secret messages in a secure way, and to communicate more efficiently than in classical networks. These goals can be achieved, for instance, via teleportation. Here we show that the design of efficient quantum communication protocols in quantum networks involves intriguing quantum phenomena, depending both on the way the nodes are displayed, and the entanglement between them. These phenomena can be employed to design protocols which overcome the exponential decrease of signals with the number of nodes. We relate the problem of establishing maximally entangled states between nodes to classical percolation in statistical mechanics, and demonstrate that quantum phase transitions can be used to optimize the operation of quantum networks.
Acin Antonio
Cirac Juan Ignacio
Lewenstein Maciej
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