Abstract

Due to the inevitable loss of single photon transmission in optical fiber, a quantum repeater scheme is needed to establish large-scale quantum networks. The existing elementary quantum repeater links are all based on emissive quantum memories, with entangled photons emitted by the memory itself. This architecture is difficult to support deterministic photon emission and multiplexing storage simultaneously, which fundamentally limits the rate of entanglement distribution. In this talk, I will present our recent work about the realization of heralded quantum entanglement between two absorptive quantum memories based on rare-earth-ion-doped crystals. This work confirmed the feasibility of constructing quantum repeater based on absorptive quantum memories and demonstrated the acceleration effect of multiplexing in quantum repeater for the first time, which lays a solid foundation for the construction of practical high-speed quantum networks.

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