TY - GEN N1 - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions. A1 - Lam, H A1 - Sutcliffe, E A1 - Beghelli, A PB - Optica Publishing Group AV - restricted Y1 - 2024/06/27/ CY - Rotterdam, Netherlands TI - Impact of Noise on Multipartite Entanglement Distribution in Quantum Networks UR - https://doi.org/10.1364/QUANTUM.2024.QTh3A.35 ID - discovery10199849 N2 - We examine non-ideal entanglement swapping and fusion operations in single-path and multipath routing for multipartite entanglement distribution. Results show the distance-invariant multipartite distribution rate of multipath routing is lost in the presence of noise. ER -