“…Multi-partite entanglement can be prepared in systems such as trapped ions [8] and solid state qubits [9,10,11,12,13,14], but as resources for quantum cryptography and communications they are problematic due to a high sensitivity to environmental decoherence, qubit immobility and the inevitable incorporation of quantum bus protocols [15,16,17] and/or fusion methods [18,19,20,21] to solve problems related to information transport. In contrast, photonic qubits are extremely easy to move and are robust against decoherence.…”