Experimental certification of millions of genuinely entangled atoms in a solid
The presence of entanglement in macroscopic systems is notoriously difficult to observe. Here, the authors develop a witness which allow them to demonstrate entanglement between millions of atoms in a solid-state quantum memory prepared by the heralded absorption of a single photon.
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-10-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00898-6 |