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Faithful qubit transmission in a quantum communication network with heterogeneous channels

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Quantum communication networks enable long-distance qubit transmission and distributed quantum computation. In this paper, a quantum communication network with heterogeneous quantum channels is constructed. A faithful qubit transmission scheme is presented. Detailed calculations and performance analyses show that even in a low-quality quantum channel with serious decoherence, only modest number of locally prepared target qubits are required to achieve near-deterministic qubit transmission.

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  • 01 February 2020

    The original version of this article unfortunately contained a spelling mistake in the first author’s affiliation. The university name “Shangdong University of Science and Technology” should be amended to “Shandong University of Science and Technology”. The correct affiliations are given below.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 61701285), Scientific Research Foundation of Shandong University of Science and Technology for Recruited Talents (No. 2017RCJJ070).

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  1. College of Electronics, Communications and Physics, Shangdong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266590, China

    Na Chen

  2. The State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks, Xidian University, Xi’an, 710071, China

    Lin Xi Zhang & Chang Xing Pei

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Chen, N., Zhang, L.X. & Pei, C.X. Faithful qubit transmission in a quantum communication network with heterogeneous channels. Quantum Inf Process 17, 79 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-018-1843-8

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