title: Accumulation of entanglement in a continuous variable memory.
abstract: We study entanglement accumulation in a memory built out of two continuous variable systems interacting with a qubit that mediates their indirect coupling. We show that, in contrast with the case of bidimensional Hilbert spaces, entanglement superior to one ebit can be accumulated in the memory, even though no entangled resource is used. The protocol is immediately implementable and we assess the role of the main imperfections.
authors.affiliation: School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Paternostro
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Palma