title: Renormalization and small-world model of fractal quantum repeater networks.
abstract: Quantum networks provide access to exchange of quantum information. The primary task of quantum networks is to distribute entanglement between remote nodes. Although quantum repeater protocol enables long distance entanglement distribution, it has been restricted to one-dimensional linear network. Here we develop a general framework that allows application of quantum repeater protocol to arbitrary quantum repeater networks with fractal structure. Entanglement distribution across such networks is mapped to renormalization. Furthermore, we demonstrate that logarithmical times of recursive such renormalization transformations can trigger fractal to small-world transition, where a scalable quantum small-world network is achieved. Our result provides new insight into quantum repeater theory towards realistic construction of large-scale quantum networks.
authors: Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China.
authors: Zong-Wen
authors: ZW
authors: Wei
authors: Bing-Hong
authors: BH
authors: Wang
authors: Xiao-Pu
authors: XP
authors: Han
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