Remote quantum entanglement between two micromechanical oscillators

Funding

We thank V. Anant, K. Hammerer, J. Hofer, S. Hofer, R. Norte, K. Phelan and J. Slater for discussions and help. We also acknowledge assistance from the Kavli Nanolab Delft, in particular from M. Zuiddam and C. de Boer. This project was supported by the European Commission under the Marie Curie Horizon 2020 initial training programme OMT (grant 722923), Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) Projectruimte grants (15PR3210, 16PR1054), the Vienna Science and Technology Fund WWTF (ICT12-049), the European Research Council (ERC CoG QLev4G, ERC StG Strong-Q), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under projects F40 (SFB FOQUS) and P28172, and by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO/OCW), as part of the Frontiers of Nanoscience programme, as well as through a Vidi grant (680-47-541/994). R. R. is supported by the FWF under project W1210 (CoQuS) and is a recipient of a DOC fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the University of Vienna.