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arXiv:1905.08184 · Physical Review Research

Entanglement and nonlocality between disparate solid-state quantum memories mediated by photons

Marcel. li Grimau Puigibert, Mohsen Falamarzi Askarani, Jacob H. Davidson, Varun B. Verma, Matthew D. Shaw, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Lutz, Gustavo Castro do Amaral, Daniel Oblak, Wolfgang Tittel

Published Jan 13, 2020• 37 citations
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Abstract

This work demonstrates entanglement preservation of entangled time-bin qubits after storage and reemission from two disparate solid-state quantum memories. This is implemented in rare-earth ion-doped host materials and hinge on atomic frequency comb protocol, and may open up applications on quantum repeaters
DOI
10.1103/physrevresearch.2.013039

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