The ability to store entangled photons in a solid-state memory, and to retrieve them while preserving the entanglement, is a required step on the way to practical quantum communication. This step has now been taken. See Letters p.508 & p.512
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Longdell, J. Entanglement on ice. Nature 469, 475–476 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/469475a
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