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Design and Analysis of Genuine Entanglement Access Control for the Quantum Internet
Multipartite entanglement plays a crucial role for the design of the Quantum
Internet, due to its peculiarities with no classical counterpart. Yet, for
entanglement-based quantum networks, a key open issue is constituted by the
lack of an effective entanglement access control (EAC) strategy for properly
handling and coordinating the quantum nodes in accessing the entangled
resource. In this paper, we design a quantum-genuine entanglement access
control (EAC) to solve the contention problem arising in accessing a
multipartite entangled resource. The proposed quantum-genuine EAC is able to:
i) fairly select a subset of nodes granted with the access to the contended
resource; ii) preserve the privacy and anonymity of the identities of the
selected nodes; iii) avoid to delegate the signaling arising with entanglement
access control to the classical network. We also conduct a theoretical analysis
of noise effects on the proposed EAC. This theoretical analysis is able to
catch the complex noise effects on the EAC through meaningful parameters
Quantum Fourier transform is the building block for creating entanglement
This study demonstrates entanglement can be exclusively constituted by quantum Fourier transform (QFT) blocks. A bridge between entanglement and QFT will allow incorporating a spectral analysis to the already traditional temporal approach of entanglement, which will result in the development of new more performant, and fault-tolerant protocols to be used in quantum computing as well as quantum communication, with particular emphasis in the future quantum Internet
Practical figures of merit and thresholds for entanglement distribution in quantum networks
Before global-scale quantum networks become operational, it is important to
consider how to evaluate their performance so that they can be built to achieve
the desired performance. We propose two practical figures of merit for the
performance of a quantum network: the average connection time and the average
largest entanglement cluster size. These quantities are based on the generation
of elementary links in a quantum network, which is a crucial initial
requirement that must be met before any long-range entanglement distribution
can be achieved and is inherently probabilistic with current implementations.
We obtain bounds on these figures of merit for a particular class of quantum
repeater protocols consisting of repeat-until-success elementary link
generation followed by joining measurements at intermediate nodes that extend
the entanglement range. Our results lead to requirements on quantum memory
coherence times, requirements on repeater chain lengths in order to surpass the
repeaterless rate limit, and requirements on other aspects of quantum network
implementations. These requirements are based solely on the inherently
probabilistic nature of elementary link generation in quantum networks, and
they apply to networks with arbitrary topology.Comment: 17 pages, 7 figures. v2: extensively revised and rewritten. Title and
abstract modified; added a section on overcoming the repeaterless rate limit;
modified statement of Theorem 1. v3: minor changes to match the published
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