%0 Journal Article %J Physical Review A %D 2009 %T Protocol for Hybrid Entanglement Between a Trapped Atom and a Semiconductor Quantum Dot %A Edo Waks %A Christopher Monroe %X We propose a quantum optical interface between an atomic and solid state system. We show that quantum states in a single trapped atom can be entangled with the states of a semiconductor quantum dot through their common interaction with a classical laser field. The interference and detection of the resulting scattered photons can then herald the entanglement of the disparate atomic and solid-state quantum bits. We develop a protocol that can succeed despite a significant mismatch in the radiative characteristics of the two matter-based qubits. We study in detail a particular case of this interface applied to a single trapped \Yb ion and a cavity-coupled InGaAs semiconductor quantum dot. Entanglement fidelity and success rates are found to be robust to a broad range of experimental nonideal effects such as dispersion mismatch, atom recoil, and multi-photon scattering. We conclude that it should be possible to produce highly entangled states of these complementary qubit systems under realistic experimental conditions. %B Physical Review A %V 80 %8 2009/12/30 %G eng %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0444v1 %N 6 %! Phys. Rev. A %R 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.062330