Conceptual network analogue · small-system teaching model
Where is the entanglement after storage?
Transfer a Bell pair from communication qubits to memories at two labeled nodes.
- 1Predict
- 2Ideal
- 3Ideal Shots
- 4Hardware
- 5Interpret
- 6Lab note
Node A
Node B
Memory-pair Bell overlap 0.500 in this exact model.
The current memory-pair evidence does not establish a witness above 1/2. This is not measured network performance.
XX means measuring both memories along X and averaging agreement (+1) versus disagreement (−1). YY and ZZ ask the corresponding questions along Y and Z.
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Exact circuit probabilities
Theoretical probabilities for the selected step and basis.
Exact numerical values
| Outcome | Probability |
|---|---|
| 0000 | 1.0000000 |
| 0001 | 0.0000000 |
| 0010 | 0.0000000 |
| 0011 | 0.0000000 |
| 0100 | 0.0000000 |
| 0101 | 0.0000000 |
| 0110 | 0.0000000 |
| 0111 | 0.0000000 |
| 1000 | 0.0000000 |
| 1001 | 0.0000000 |
| 1010 | 0.0000000 |
| 1011 | 0.0000000 |
| 1100 | 0.0000000 |
| 1101 | 0.0000000 |
| 1110 | 0.0000000 |
| 1111 | 0.0000000 |
Fixed 0–100% scale · left digit is qubit 0
q1 and q3 are measured in Z; q0 and q2 in Z. A histogram is not the complete quantum state.
What this shows
Prepare four qubits
Local SWAPs move the correlations into memory qubits q1 and q3. The communication qubits return to |0⟩. XX, YY and ZZ measurements together give the Bell projector overlap F = (1 + XX − YY + ZZ)/4; F > 1/2 is an entanglement witness for this pair.
Where this model stops
The link is an assumed Bell resource, not a simulation of fiber, heralding or mixed ion species. Ideal storage has no decay. This cannot reproduce the reported ten-second lifetime. A single-chip gate circuit is not a remote network.
Real QPU eligibility and source paper
H, CX and SWAP describe an on-chip analogue. No remote networking or memory lifetime is demonstrated, and no QPU data is attached.
There is no hardware execution behind these plots. Exporting a circuit does not validate a device or create a new hardware result.
Main et al. · Multipartite Mixed-Species Entanglement over a Quantum Network ↗PRL · October 13, 2026; preprint June 17, 2025