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Linking crystals with a single photon

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Linking distant quantum memories with light has been a goal of the quantum information community for many years. A team at the University of Geneva has now demonstrated that memories made from rare-earth-ion-doped crystals can be connected using a single photon.

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Figure 1: Classical and quantum shell games.
Figure 2: Creating entanglement between two quantum memories.

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  1. Steven Olmschenk is at the Joint Quantum Institute, a research partnership between the University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA,

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