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Spin Wave Diffraction Control and Read-out with a Quantum Memory for Light

Quantum Physics 2015-01-07 v1

Abstract

A scheme for control and read-out of diffracted spins waves to propagating light fields is presented. Diffraction is obtained via sinusoidally varying lights shifts and ideal one-to-one mapping to light is realized using a gradient echo quantum memory. We also show that dynamical control of the diffracted spin waves spatial orders can be implemented to realize a quantum pulse sequencer for temporal modes that have high time-bandwidth products. Full numerical solutions suggest that both co-propagating and couterpropagating light shift geometries can be used, making the proposal applicable to hot and cold atomic vapours as well as solid state systems with two-level atoms.

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@article{arxiv.1501.01194,
  title  = {Spin Wave Diffraction Control and Read-out with a Quantum Memory for Light},
  author = {Gabriel Hétet and David Guéry-Odelin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.01194},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures

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