Illinois ECE Distinguished Colloquium Series

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On Some Quantum Internet Information Rates

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Olgica Milenkovic, Ph.D.
Location
1002 Grainger Auditorium ECEB
Date
Oct 27, 2022   4:00 - 5:00 pm  
Speaker
Emina Soljanin, Ph.D. - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Contact
Olgica Milenkovic, Ph.D.
E-Mail
milenkovic@illinois.edu
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Abstract:

This talk discusses information rates in two quantum internet building blocks concerning quantum (conference) key distribution (QKD). We first focus on QKD based on time-entangled photon pairs. These systems extract key bits from photon arrival times and thus promise to deliver more than one bit per photon as opposed to polarization-entanglement QKD, where each entangled photon pair contributes at most one bit to the secret key. However, realistic photon detectors exhibit time jitter and require non-zero time to recover upon registering a photon arrival. We model and evaluate the effect of these impairments on information rates generated based on photon arrival times and ask whether time-entanglement-based QKD can live up to its promise. We next ask whether quantum network multicast can make conference key agreements more efficient. Since there is no quantum information without physical representation (e.g., by photons), the problem of quantum multicast at first seems nothing more than the multi-commodity flow problem of shipping a collection of different commodities through a shared network. However, we show that besides the apparent similarity to the multi-commodity flow problems, quantum networks, to a certain extent, behave as classical information networks. In particular, we show that lossless compression of multicast quantum states is possible and significantly reduces the link capacity requirements of the multicast.

Bio:

Emina Soljanin is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers. Before moving to Rutgers in January 2016, she was a (Distinguished) Member of Technical Staff for 21 years in various incarnations of the Mathematical Sciences Research Center of Bell Labs. Her interests and expertise are broad and currently range from distributed computing to quantum information science. She is an IEEE Fellow, an outstanding alumnus of the Texas A&M School of Engineering, the 2011 Padovani Lecturer, a 2016/17 Distinguished Lecturer, and the 2019 President of the IEEE Information Theory Society.

 

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