Multipartite Mixed-Species Entanglement over a Quantum Network
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D Main1, P Drmota1, E M Ainley1
1Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We generate multipartite entangled states of two, three, and four matter qubits, where the entanglement is distributed over macroscopic distances via a photonic network link. Trapped-ion ^{88}Sr^{+} qubits are entangled directly via an optical fibre link, and the entanglement is subsequently extended to ^{43}Ca^{+} memory qubits cotrapped in each network node, using local mixed-species logic gates. We create remotely entangled Sr^{+}-Ca^{+} and Ca^{+}-Ca^{+} states, as well as mixed-species Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states of up to four qubits. We demonstrate storage of the remotely entangled memory qubits for ∼10 s, more than 100× the state creation time.
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