“…Whereas sophisticated forms of multi-photon entanglement have been reported 55 , the associated rates are not well-suited for network considerations. Notably, however, recent advances based on time-multiplexing and feed-forward 56 offer a path to better rates. Moreover, deterministic entanglement swapping with passive linear optics is many times not possible without auxiliary photons 57 and, while probabilistic entanglement swapping, as in our experiment, is possible, it typically comes with success rates rapidly decreasing in the number of qubits 58 .…”