Generation and distribution of heralded entanglement between atomic ensembles for scalable quantum networks
Kyung Soo Choi, Julien Laurat, Hui Deng, C. W. Chou, Hugues de Riedmatten, D. Felinto, Harry J. Kimble · CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) · 2008
Entanglement is generated by path-erasing detection of single photon emitted indistinguishably by two atomic ensembles. We characterize relationship of degree of entanglement to local dephasing. Parallel pairs of entanglement are distributed to polarization entanglement via conditional control.