  Single electron spins in quantum dots are attractive for quantum
communication because of their expected long coherence times. We propose a
method to create entanglement between two remote spins based on the coincident
detection of two photons emitted by the dots. Local nodes of several qubits can
be realized using the dipole-dipole interaction between trions in neighboring
dots and spectral addressing, allowing the realization of quantum repeater
protocols. We have performed a detailed feasibility study of our proposal based
on tight-binding calculations of quantum dot properties.
