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Towards a Memory-Assisted Bell State Measurement Between Two Independent Entanglement Sources

Sonali Gera, Chase Wallace, Shane Andrewski, Eden V. Figueroa

Published Jan 1, 2023• 0 citations

Abstract

We report on progress towards achieving entanglement swapping between independent cavity-enhanced entanglement sources that are tuned for quantum memory operation. Together with quantum memories, we envision the demonstration of a Type II quantum repeater.

DOI: 10.1364/quantum.2023.qth3b.4

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