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Quantum Entanglement Swapping

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Entangles two qubits that never directly interact by performing a Bell measurement on intermediary qubits.

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Source Code

OPENQASM 2.0;
include "qelib1.inc";
qreg q[4];
creg c[4];
// Bell pair 1
h q[0]; cx q[0],q[1];
// Bell pair 2
h q[2]; cx q[2],q[3];
// Bell measurement
cx q[1],q[2]; h q[1];
measure q -> c;

Cite this circuit

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quantumcomputer.dev. "Quantum Entanglement Swapping". quantumcomputer.dev/circuits/entanglement-swapping. 2026.