Quantum Information and Measurement (QIM)

Entanglement between a telecom photon and a spin-Wave solid-state multimode quantum memory

Jelena V. Rakonjac, Dario Lago-Rivera, Alessandro Seri, Margherita Mazzera, Samuele Grandi, Hugues de Riedmatten

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations

Abstract

We demonstrate entanglement between a telecom photon and a solid-state multimode quantum memory. The entanglement is maintained for an optical excitation (with a fidelity high enough to violate a Bell inequality) and a spin-wave excitation.

DOI: 10.1364/qim.2021.tu3b.3

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