Generating Einstein--Podolsky--Rosen correlations for teleporting collective spin states in a two dimensional trapped ion crystal

We propose the use of phonon-mediated interactions as an entanglement resource to engineer Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations and to perform teleportation of collective spin states in two-dimensional ion crystals. We emulate continuous variable quantum teleportation protocols between subsystems corresponding to different nuclear spin degrees of freedom. In each of them, a quantum state is encoded in an electronic spin degree of freedom that couples to the vibrational modes of the crystal.