Preprints

Improved analytical bounds on completion times of entanglement distribution protocols
T. Coopmans, S. Brand, and D. Elkouss
arXiv:2103.11454 (2021)
arXiv

Enumerating all bilocal Clifford distillation protocols through symmetry reduction
S. Jansen, K. Goodenough, S. de Bone, D. Gijswijt, and D. Elkouss
arXiv:2103.03669 (2021) To be presented at TQC 2021.
arXiv

Netsquid, a discrete-event simulation platform for quantum networks
T. Coopmans, R. Knegjens, A. Dahlberg, D. Maier, L. Nijsten, J. Oliveira, M. Papendrecht, J.Rabbie, F. Rozpędek, M. Skrzypczyk, L. Wubben, W. de Jong, D. Podareanu, A. T. Knoop, D.Elkouss, and S. Wehner
arXiv:2010.12535 (2021)
arXiv

2021

Tools for quantum network design
K. Azuma, S. Bäuml, T. Coopmans, D. Elkouss, and B. Li
AVS Quantum Science, vol. 3, no. 1, p. 014101, (2021) Selected by AVS as a featured paper.
arXiv – published

Optimising repeater schemes for the quantum internet
Kenneth Goodenough, David Elkouss, Stephanie Wehner
Phys. Rev. A, vol. 103, p. 032610, (2021)
arXiv – published

2020

Efficient optimization of cut-offs in quantum repeater chains
B. Li, T. Coopmans, and D. Elkouss
IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), pp. 158–168, (2020)
arXiv – published

Linear programs for entanglement and key distribution in the quantum internet
Stefan Bäuml, Koji Azuma, Go Kato, David Elkouss
Communications Physics, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1–12, 2020. Plenary presentation in AQIS 2018.
arXiv – published

Efficient computation of the waiting time and fidelity in quantum repeater chains
S. Brand, T. Coopmans, and D. Elkouss
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 619–639, (2020) Presented in AQIS 2020
arXiv – published

Entanglement distribution in a quantum network: A multicommodity flow-based approach
K. Chakraborty, D. Elkouss, B. Rijsman, and S. Wehner
Transactions on Quantum Engineering, vol. 1, pp. 1–21 (2020)
arXiv – published

Protocols for creating and distilling multipartite GHZ states with Bell pairs
Sébastian de Bone, Runsheng Ouyang, Kenneth Goodenough, David Elkouss
Transactions on Quantum Engineering, vol. 1, pp. 1–10 (2020) Presented in QRE 2020.
arXiv – published

Key rates for quantum key distribution protocols with asymmetric noise
G. Murta, F. Rozpędek, J. Ribeiro, D. Elkouss, and S. Wehner
Physical Review A, vol. 101, p. 062321 (2020)
arXiv – published

2019

Near-term quantum repeater experiments with NV centers: overcoming the limitations of direct transmission
Filip Rozpędek, Raja Yehia, Kenneth Goodenough, Maximilian Ruf, Peter C. Humphreys, Ronald Hanson, Stephanie Wehner, David Elkouss
Physical Review A 99, 052330 (2019)
arXiv – published

Practical and reliable error bars for quantum process tomography
Le Phuc Thinh, Philippe Faist, Jonas Helsen, David Elkouss, Stephanie Wehner
Physical Review A 99, 052311 (2019)

arXiv – published

2018

Quantum internet: A Vision for the road ahead
Stephanie Wehner, David Elkouss, Ronald Hanson
Science 362, 6412 (2018)
published

Optimizing practical entanglement distillation
Filip Rozpędek, Thomas Schiet, Le Phuc Thinh, David Elkouss, Andrew C. Doherty, Stephanie Wehner
Physical Review A 97, 062333 (2018)
arXiv – published

Parameter regimes for a single sequential quantum repeater
Filip Rozpędek, Kenneth Goodenough, Jérémy Ribeiro, Norbert Kalb, Valentina Caprara Vivoli, Andreas Reiserer, Ronald Hanson, Stephanie Wehner, David Elkouss
Quantum Science and Technology 3, 034002 (2018)
arXiv – published

Memory effects can make the transmission capability of a communication channel uncomputable
D Elkouss, D Pérez-García
Nature Communications 9, 1149 (2018)
arXiv – published

2017

Key distribution and the CHSH game
D Elkouss
Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde 18 (3),195-198 (2017)
published

Fundamental Finite Key Limits for Information Reconciliation in Quantum Key Distribution
M Tomamichel, J Martinez-Mateo, C Pacher, D Elkouss
Quantum Information Processing 16, 280 (2017)
arXiv – published

2016

(Nearly) optimal P-values for all Bell inequalities
David Elkouss and Stephanie Wehner
npj Quantum Information 2, 16026 (2016)
arXiv – published

Non-convexity of private capacity and classical environment-assisted capacity of a quantum channel
D Elkouss, S Strelchuk
Physical Review A 94 040301 Rapid Communication (2016)
arXiv – published

Loophole-free Bell test using electron spins in diamond: second experiment and additional analysis
B. Hensen, N. Kalb, M.S. Blok, A. Dréau, A. Reiserer, R.F.L. Vermeulen, R.N. Schouten, M. Markham, D.J. Twitchen, K. Goodenough, D. Elkouss, S. Wehner, T. H. Taminiau, R. Hanson
Scientific Reports 6, 30289 (2016)

arXiv – published

Assessing the performance of quantum repeaters for all phase-insensitive Gaussian bosonic channels
K Goodenough, D Elkouss and S Wehner
New Journal of Physics 18, 063005 (2016)

arXiv – published

2015

Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres
Bas Hensen, H. Bernien, A. E. Dréau, A. Reiserer, N. Kalb, M. S. Blok, J. Ruitenberg, R. F. L. Vermeulen, R. N. Schouten, C. Abellán, W. Amaya, V. Pruneri, Morgan W. Mitchell, M. Markham, D. J. Twitchen, D. Elkouss, S. Wehner, T. H. Taminiau, R. Hanson
Nature 526 (7575), 682-686 (2015)
arXiv – published
Find more information about this experiment at its dedicated page.

Superadditivity of private information for any number of uses of the channel
D Elkouss, S Strelchuk
Physical Review Letters 115 (4) 040501 (2015)
arXiv – published

Unbounded number of channel uses are required to see quantum capacity
T Cubitt, D Elkouss, W Matthews, M Ozols, D Pérez-García, S Strelchuk
Nature Communications 6, 7739 (2015)
arXiv – published

Quantum capacity can be greater than private information for arbitrarily many uses
D Elkouss, S Strelchuk
10th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography, pp. 64–72, Brussels, Belgium (2015)
arXiv – published

2014

High Bit Rate Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution
P Jouguet, D Elkouss, S Kunz-Jacques
Physical Review A 90 (4) 042329 (2014)
arXiv – published

Fundamental Finite Key Limits for Information Reconciliation in Quantum Key Distribution
M Tomamichel, J Martinez-Mateo, C Pacher, D Elkouss
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 1469–1473, Honolulu, USA, (2014)
arXiv – published

2013

Analysis of a rate-adaptive reconciliation protocol and the effect of the leakage on the secret key rate
D Elkouss, J Martinez-Mateo, V Martin
Physical Review A 87 (4), 042334 (2013)
arXiv – published

Key Reconciliation for High Performance Quantum Key Distribution
J Martinez-Mateo, D Elkouss, V Martin
Scientific Reports 3, 1576 (2013)
arXiv – published

Secure Optical Networks Based on Quantum Key Distribution and Weakly Trusted Repeaters
D Elkouss, J Martinez-Mateo, A Ciurana, V Martin
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking 5 (4), 316-328 (2013)
arXiv – published

2012

Blind Reconciliation
J Martinez-Mateo, D Elkouss, V Martin
Quantum Information and Computation 12 (9&10), 0791–0812 (2012)
arXiv – published

Untainted Puncturing for Irregular Low-Density Parity-Check Codes
D Elkouss, J Martinez-Mateo, V Martin
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters 1 (6), 585-588 (2012)
arXiv – published

2011

Information reconciliation for quantum key distribution
D Elkouss, J Martinez-Mateo, V Martin
Quantum Information and Computation 11 (3), 0226–0238 (2011)
arXiv – published

2010

Improved construction of irregular progressive edge-growth Tanner graphs
J Martinez-Mateo, D Elkouss, V Martin
IEEE Communications Letters 14 (12), 1155-1157 (2010)
arXiv – published

Secure rate-adaptive reconciliation
D Elkouss, J Martinez-Mateo, V Martin
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory and Applications, pp. 179–184, Taichung, Taiwan, (2010)
arXiv – published

Interactive reconciliation with low-density parity-check codes
J Martinez-Mateo, D Elkouss, V Martin
IEEE International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Iterative Information Processing, pp. 280–284, Brest, France, (2010)
arXiv – published

Rate compatible protocol for information reconciliation: An application to QKD
D Elkouss, J Martinez-Mateo, D Lancho, V Martin
IEEE Information Theory Workshop, pp. 145–149, Cairo, Egypt, (2010)
arXiv – published

QKD in standard optical telecommunications networks
D Lancho, J Martinez-Mateo, D Elkouss, M Soto, V Martin
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 36: pp. 142–149, (2010)
arXiv – published

2009

Efficient reconciliation protocol for discrete-variable quantum key distribution
D Elkouss, A Leverrier, R Alléaume, J Boutros
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 1879–1883, Seoul, South Korea, (2009)
arXiv – published