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  • Zheng-Da, Li; Zhang, Rui; Xu-Fei, Yin; Li-Zheng, Liu; Hu, Yi; Yu-Qiang, Fang; Yue-Yang, Fei; Jiang, Xiao; Zhang, Jun; Li, Li; Nai-Le Liu; Xu, Feihu; Yu-Ao, Chen; Jian-Wei, Pan

    arXiv.org, 08/2019
    Paper, Journal Article

    Quantum repeaters -- important components of a scalable quantum internet -- enable the entanglement to be distributed over long distances. The standard paradigm for a quantum repeater relies on a necessary demanding requirement of quantum memory. Despite significant progress, the limited performance of quantum memory makes practical quantum repeaters still a great challenge. Remarkably, a proposed all-photonic quantum repeater avoids the need for quantum memory by harnessing the graph states in the repeater nodes. Here we perform an experimental demonstration of an all-photonic quantum repeater using linear optics. By manipulating a 12-photon interferometer, we implement a 2-by-2 parallel all-photonic quantum repeater, and observe an 89% enhancement of entanglement-generation rate over the standard parallel entanglement swapping. These results open a new way towards designing repeaters with efficient single-photon sources and photonic graph states, and suggest that the all-photonic scheme represents an alternative path -- parallel to that of matter-memory-based schemes -- towards realizing practical quantum repeaters.