# Protocol for generating multi-photon entangled states from quantum dots in the presence of nuclear spin fluctuations

## TL;DR

This paper proposes a robust protocol for generating multi-photon entangled states from quantum dots, overcoming nuclear spin fluctuation limitations and enabling high-fidelity entanglement without complex spin control techniques.

## Contribution

The authors introduce a new protocol that is inherently resistant to nuclear spin fluctuations, allowing deterministic creation of high-quality multi-photon entangled states without spin echo methods.

## Key findings

- Protocol achieves entanglement limited only by electron spin T2 time.
- Enables generation of three-photon GHZ states with very low error probability.
- Does not require spin echo or nuclear spin calming techniques.

## Abstract

Multi-photon entangled states are a crucial resource for many applications in quantum information science. Semiconductor quantum dots offer a promising route to generate such states by mediating photon-photon correlations via a confined electron spin, but dephasing caused by the host nuclear spin environment typically limits coherence (and hence entanglement) between photons to the spin $T_2^*$ time of a few nanoseconds. We propose a protocol for the deterministic generation of multi-photon entangled states that is inherently robust against the dominating slow nuclear spin environment fluctuations, meaning that coherence and entanglement is instead limited only by the much longer spin $T_2$ time of microseconds. Unlike previous protocols, the present scheme allows for the generation of very low error probability polarisation encoded three-photon GHZ states and larger entangled states, without the need for spin echo or nuclear spin calming techniques.