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arXiv:1903.11284 · Nature

Entanglement of two quantum memories via fibres over dozens of kilometres

Yong Yu, Fei Ma, Xi-Yu Luo, Bo Jing, Peng-Fei Sun, Ren-Zhou Fang, Chao-Wei Yang, Hui Liu, Ming-Yang Zheng, Xiu-Ping Xie, Wei-Jun Zhang, Li-Xing You, Zhen Wang, Teng-Yun Chen, Qiang Zhang, Xiao-Hui Bao, Jian-Wei Pan

Published Feb 12, 2020• 348 citations
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10.1038/s41586-020-1976-7

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