Long-lived qubit entanglement by surface plasmon polaritons in a Weyl semimetal

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 entanglement achieved in the Weyl semimetal is sufficiently long lived compared to the entanglement using SPPs in conventional metals.

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We investigate spontaneous entanglement of two qubits mediated by nonreciprocal surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) in a Weyl semimetal. The nonreciprocal SPP gives better quantum entanglement than the reciprocal one, and the entanglement achieved in the Weyl semimetal is sufficiently long lived compared to the entanglement using SPPs in conventional metals.