“…Photons are the usual candidate for the flying qubits, whereas some other quantum system with a longer coherence time is necessary for the storage of quantum information in quantum repeaters and networks [25]. The storage of quantum states has, for example, been previously studied in atomic media, where the information is stored as spin excitations [26,27,28], in optomechanical systems [29,30,31], in coupled optical waveguides, or in acoustic excitations [32,33,34,35].…”