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Reliable Quantum Communication

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Publication Date2023-07-02
AuthorsMasab Iqbal, Morteza Ahmadian, Luis Velasco, Marc Ruiz
InstitutionsUniversitat Politècnica de Catalunya

The quantum internet, which will be a hybrid of quantum and classical networks, is expected to provide information-theoretic security for data transmission. Classical networks have well-established protocols for reliable end-to-end transmission that use duplicating the classical bits implicitly. However, due to the no-cloning theorem, quantum bits (qubits) cannot be copied. In this paper, we propose to use a Universal Quantum Copying Machine (UQCM) to create imperfect clones and summarizes the Quantum Automatic Repeat Request (QARQ) protocol, which is inspired by its classical counterpart. To investigate the viability of QARQ, a simulation platform is created considering Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center qubit platform that implements QARQ for quantum communication. The results explore the applications it is suitable for while maintaining enough quality of the qubit state. Two major quantum technologies are studied for these protocols: Direct Transmission (DT), and Teleportation (TP). It has been shown that for short distance communication DT provides better fidelity than TP while for long-distance communication TP outperforms DT and hence improves the QARQ performance as well.

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