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Published on: September 5, 2019
Entangling Two Rydberg Superatoms via Single-Photon Interference
Chao-Wei Yang1, Jun Li1, Peng-Fei Sun1
1University of Science and Technology of China, University of Science and Technology of China, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and School of Physical Sciences, Hefei 230026, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, Hefei 230026, China, and Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China.
Abstract:
Remote entanglement of matter qubits plays an important role in quantum networks and quantum repeater. Collective excitations generated via Rydberg blockade in an atomic ensemble-known as Rydberg superatoms-are promising candidates due to collectively enhanced atom-photon coupling and Rydberg-enabled nonlinearity. Here, we experimentally realize remote entanglement between two Rydberg superatoms via single-photon interference. The two setups are separated by 3 m and linked with two 20-m fibers, operated with independent control lasers. We verify that the entanglement generated is free from high-order excitation noise that is a key drawback in the traditional Duan-Lukin-Cirac-Zoller scheme. This Letter paves the way for entangling long-distance separated Rydberg superatoms at a high rate, as the success probability of a single-photon-based entangling scheme scales with the square root of the channel transmittance.
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