Design of a Quantum-Repeater using Quantum-Circuits and benchmarking its performance on an IBM Quantum-Computer
arXiv:2009.04584 · doi:10.1007/s11128-021-03189-8
Abstract
Quantum communication relies on the existence of entanglement between two nodes of a network. However, due to its fragile nature, it is nearly impossible to establish entanglement at large distances through the direct transmission of qubits. Quantum repeaters have been proposed to solve this problem, which split-up the network to create small-scale entangled links and then connect them up to create the large-scale link. As researchers race to establish entanglement over larger and larger distances, it becomes essential to gauge the performance and robustness of the different protocols that have been proposed to design a quantum repeater, before deploying them in real life. Currently available noisy quantum computers are ideal for this task, as they can emulate the noisy environment in a quantum communication channel, and provide a measure for how the protocols will perform on real-life hardware. In this paper, we report the circuit-level implementation of the complete architecture of a quantum repeater, and benchmark this protocol on IBM's cloud quantum computer - IBMQ. Our experiments indicate a 26% fidelity of shared bell-pairs for a complete on-chip quantum repeater with a yield of 49%. We also compare these results with simulation data from IBM Qiskit. The results of our experiments provide a quantitative measure for the fidelity of entanglement that currently available repeaters can establish. In addition, the proposed circuit-implementation provides a robust benchmark for state-of-the-art quantum computing hardware.
arXiv comment23 pages, 10 figures; added detailed circuits, analysis of results and updated references
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