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Multimode Memories in Atomic Ensembles

Quantum Physics 2009-01-12 v3

Abstract

The ability to store multiple optical modes in a quantum memory allows for increased efficiency of quantum communication and computation. Here we compute the multimode capacity of a variety of quantum memory protocols based on light storage in ensembles of atoms. We find that adding a controlled inhomogeneous broadening improves this capacity significantly.

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@article{arxiv.0807.1250,
  title  = {Multimode Memories in Atomic Ensembles},
  author = {J. Nunn and K. Reim and K. C. Lee and V. O. Lorenz and B. Sussman and I. A. Walmsley and D. Jaksch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.1250},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Published version. Many thanks are due to Christoph Simon for his help and suggestions. (This acknowledgement is missing from the final draft: apologies!)

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