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Exploring remote entanglement

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The controlled 'catch and release' of individual quantum-information-carrying photons is an important ingredient for achieving scalable quantum networking. Recently, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics succeeded in this task in two separate systems.

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Figure 1: Single-photon 'catch and release'.

TOM WILSON

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  1. Boris B. Blinov is in the Department of Physics at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA

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  1. David L. Moehring is at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA,

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Moehring, D., Blinov, B. Exploring remote entanglement. Nature Photon 5, 454–456 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.165

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