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A future without long memories?

An innovative quantum network design that uses light–matter interfaces to process individual light quanta may ultimately allow quantum communication at high rates and over long distances without the need for long-lived quantum memories.

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Figure 1: The building block of the network design envisaged by Munro and co-workers2.

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