Long-lived qubit entanglement by surface plasmon polaritons in a Weyl semimetal
arXiv:2206.00534 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.106.155409
Abstract
We investigate spontaneous entanglement of two qubits mediated by nonreciprocal surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in a Weyl semimetal. In the absence of external magnetic fields, the topology of the Weyl semimetal even gives rise to nonreciprocal SPPs that are topologically protected and reside inside the photonic gap. We utilize this nonreciprocal SPP as a mediator of entanglement of two spatially-separated qubits. Our two main findings are: (1) the nonreciprocal SPP gives better quantum entanglement than the reciprocal one, and (2) the achieved entanglement is sufficiently long-lived compared to the entanglement using SPPs in conventional metals.
24 pages in preprint format, 7 figures
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