Entangle Distant Particles: Theoretical Possibility?

[Curious marq]

TL;DR

Can you target a distant particle to entangle it?

Is it theoretically possible to target a distant particle and entangle it with a near particle? Or is entanglement only possible with close particles?

 

[microsansfil]

Hello

With entanglement swapping, two photons separated by more than n km of optical fibers are entangled, although they never directly interacted : https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0409093

/Patrick