该成果为量子中继的发展研究开创了一个可行的方向,为实用化高速量子网络的构建打下基础。审稿人对该工作给予了高度评价:“The present work focuses on the ensemble approach, which has a number of advantages in the context of quantum repeater applications, multiplexing for instance(这个实验采用系综存储器,在量子中继应用中具有一系列的优势,比如多模式复用)”;“the demonstration is a very straight forward and clean demonstration of the quantum repeater elementary link…it is a significant accomplishment that will form the basis for further research(这个实验是对量子中继器基本链路的一个非常直接和清晰的演示,……这是一项重要的成就,将为接下来的研究奠定基础)”;“such is a major accomplishment towards realizing long-distance quantum networks on land(这是在地面上实现远距离量子网络的一项重大成就)”。