TY - JOUR N2 - We investigate the possibility of realizing effective quantum gates between two atoms in distant cavities coupled by an optical fiber. We show that highly reliable swap and entangling gates are achievable. We exactly study the stability of these gates in the presence of imperfections in coupling strengths and interaction times and prove them to be robust. Moreover, we analyze the effect of spontaneous emission and losses and show that such gates are very promising in view of the high level of coherent control currently achievable in optical cavities. ID - discovery10007 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.010503 SN - 0031-9007 JF - Physical Review Letters A1 - Serafini, A. A1 - Mancini, S. A1 - Bose, S. TI - Distributed quantum computation via optical fibers Y1 - 2006/01/13/ AV - public VL - 96 IS - 1 ER -