“…As shown in this figure, we first perform entanglement swapping via appropriate interaction between trapped ions (2,3) and (6,7) in two independent OMCs. Then, by performing proper measurements (denoted by M(j, j + 1) where j = 2, 6, in figure 1) on trapped ions (2,3) and (6,7), i.e., which is done by operating appropriate projection operators, the separable trapped ions (1,4) and (5,8) are respectively converted to the entangled states. Anyway, these states can be entangled or separable depending on the time.…”