Bosonic logical qubit storage unit

Utilizes bosonic quantum error correction codes as long-coherence-time storage qubits, repetitively generating entanglement and injecting it into error-detectable logical qubits to significantly extend entanglement lifetime, offering a new paradigm for efficient entanglement management in scalable quantum networks.

Jie, Zhou · Chuanlong, Ma · Xu, Yifang · Cai, Weizhou · Hongwei, Huang · Lida, Sun · Xue, Guangming · Hua, Z. · Yu, Haifeng · Wang, Weiting · Zou, Changling · Sun, Luyan

Physical Review Letters 2026

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The existence time of entanglement is extended by nearly 50% compared to the case without entanglement pumping.