Entanglement of Remote Atomic Qubits

D. N. Matsukevich, T. Chanelière, S. D. Jenkins, S.-Y. Lan, T. A. B. Kennedy, and A. Kuzmich
Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 030405 – Published 25 January 2006

Abstract

We report observations of entanglement of two remote atomic qubits, achieved by generating an entangled state of an atomic qubit and a single photon at site A, transmitting the photon to site B in an adjacent laboratory through an optical fiber, and converting the photon into an atomic qubit. Entanglement of the two remote atomic qubits is inferred by performing, locally, quantum state transfer of each of the atomic qubits onto a photonic qubit and subsequent measurement of polarization correlations in violation of the Bell inequality |S|2. We experimentally determine Sexp=2.16±0.03. Entanglement of two remote atomic qubits, each qubit consisting of two independent spin wave excitations, and reversible, coherent transfer of entanglement between matter and light represent important advances in quantum information science.

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  • Received 2 November 2005

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.030405

©2006 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

D. N. Matsukevich, T. Chanelière, S. D. Jenkins, S.-Y. Lan, T. A. B. Kennedy, and A. Kuzmich

  • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430, USA

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Vol. 96, Iss. 3 — 27 January 2006

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