We investigate the feasibility of implementing an elementary building block for quantum information processing. The combination of a deterministic single photon source based on vacuum stimulated adiabatic rapid passage, and a quantum memory based on electromagnetically induced transparency in atomic vapour is outlined. Both systems are able to produce and process temporally shaped wavepackets which provides a way to maintain the indistinguishability of retrieved and original photons. We also propose an efficient and robust `repeat-until-success' quantum computation scheme based on this hybrid architecture.
@article{arxiv.1011.4755,
title = {EIT-Based Quantum Memory for Single Photons from Cavity-QED},
author = {Matt Himsworth and Peter Nisbet and Jerome Dilley and Gunnar Langfahl-Klabes and Axel Kuhn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4755},
year = {2015}
}