Distributing entanglement in first-generation discrete- and continuous-variable quantum repeaters

Quantum repeaters are used to overcome the exponential photon loss scaling that quantum states acquire as they transmitted over long distances. While for discrete-variable encodings of information have existed some time, approaches continuous-variable encoding only recently been proposed. In this work, we present a method using repeater protocol distribute and utilize it compare rates entanglement distribution between first-generation continuous- repeaters. Such comparison allows us begin benchmark two quite different approaches.