# Phonon-assisted two-photon interference from remote quantum emitters

## TL;DR

This paper demonstrates high-visibility two-photon interference from remote quantum dots using a novel phonon-assisted excitation scheme, advancing quantum network development with improved indistinguishability and robustness.

## Contribution

It introduces a phonon-assisted two-photon excitation method that enhances indistinguishability and fidelity in remote quantum dot photon pairs, surpassing conventional techniques.

## Key findings

- Achieved 51% two-photon interference visibility from remote quantum dots.
- Generated 71% indistinguishable entangled photon pairs with 90% fidelity.
- Enabled robust, on-demand biexciton state preparation with 80% fidelity.

## Abstract

Photonic quantum technologies are on the verge of finding applications in everyday life with quantum cryptography and the quantum internet on the horizon. Extensive research has been carried out to determine suitable quantum emitters and single epitaxial quantum dots are emerging as near-optimal sources of bright, on-demand, highly indistinguishable single photons and entangled photon pairs. In order to build up quantum networks, it is now essential to interface remote quantum emitters. However, this is still an outstanding challenge, as the quantum states of dissimilar 'artificial atoms' have to be prepared on-demand with high fidelity, and the generated photons have to be made indistinguishable in all possible degrees of freedom. Here, we overcome this major obstacle and show an unprecedented two-photon interference (visibility of 51+/-5%) from remote strain-tunable GaAs quantum dots, emitting on-demand photon-pairs. We achieve this result by exploiting for the first time the full potential of the novel phonon-assisted two-photon excitation scheme, which allows for the generation of highly indistinguishable (visibility of 71+/-9%) entangled photon-pairs (fidelity of 90+/-2%), it enables push-to button biexciton state preparation (fidelity of 80+/-2%) and it outperforms conventional resonant two-photon excitation schemes in terms of robustness against environmental decoherence. Our results mark an important milestone for the practical realization of quantum repeaters and complex multi-photon entanglement experiments involving dissimilar artificial atoms.