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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Event-Ready Entanglement of Distant Atoms Distributed at Telecom Wavelength

Tim van Leent, Florian Fertig, Matthias Bock, Robert Garthoff, Yiru Zhou, Sebastian Eppelt, Wei Zhang, Christoph Becher, Harald Weinfurter

Published Jun 21, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

Quantum repeaters will allow scalable quantum networks, which is essential for large scale quantum communication and distributed quantum computing. A crucial step on the road towards a quantum repeater is to achieve heralded entanglement between stationary quantum memories over long distances.
DOI
10.1109/cleo/europe-eqec52157.2021.9542543

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