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Quantum memories capable of storing single photons are essential building blocks for quantum information processing, enabling the storage and transfer of quantum information over long distances. Devices operating at room temperature can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 K. F. Reim , P. Michelberger , K. C. Lee , J. Nunn , N. K. Langford , I. A. Walmsley

We propose a scheme to utilize photons for ideal quantum transmission between atoms located at spatially-separated nodes of a quantum network. The transmission protocol employs special laser pulses which excite an atom inside an optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller , H. J. Kimble , H. Mabuchi

We have analyzed an efficient integration of the multi-qubit echo quantum memory into the quantum computer scheme on the atomic resonant ensembles in quantum electrodynamics cavity. Here, one atomic ensemble with controllable inhomogeneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 Sergey A. Moiseev , Sergey N. Andrianov

We propose a single-shot conditional displacement gate between a trapped atom as the control qubit and a traveling light pulse as the target oscillator, mediated by an optical cavity. Classical driving of the atom synchronized with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Seigo Kikura , Hayato Goto , Fumiya Hanamura , Takao Aoki

Light trapping is a crucial mechanism for synchronization in optical communication. Especially on the level of single photons, control of the exact emission time is desirable. In this paper, we theoretically propose a single-photon…

Quantum memory, serving as a crucial device for storing and releasing quantum states, holds significant importance in long-distance quantum communications. Up to date, quantum memories have been realized in many different systems. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Ming-Shuo Sun , Chun-Hui Zhang , Yi-Zhen Luo , Shuang Wang , Yun Liu , Jian Li , Qin Wang

This chapter introduces cavity-based light-matter quantum interfaces, with a single atom or ion in strong coupling to a high-finesse optical cavity. We discuss the deterministic generation of indistinguishable single photons from these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-25 Axel Kuhn

A single photon source is realized with a cold atomic ensemble ($^{87}$Rb atoms). In the experiment, single photons, which is initially stored in an atomic quantum memory generated by Raman scattering of a laser pulse, can be emitted…

A key resource for quantum optics experiments is an on-demand source of single and multiple photon states at telecommunication wavelengths. This letter presents a heralded single photon source based on a hybrid technology approach,…

Parametrically driving an optical cavity that simultaneously couples to an atomic ensemble quantum memory enables in-situ generation of multimode photon-memory entanglement. A high-rate bi-party photon-memory entanglement can be generated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Hoi-Kwan Lau , Hong Qiao , Aashish A. Clerk , Tian Zhong

The mapping of photonic states to collective excitations of atomic ensembles is a powerful tool which finds a useful application in the realization of quantum memories and quantum repeaters. In this work we show that cold atoms in optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Christine A. Muschik , Ines de Vega , Diego Porras , J. Ignacio Cirac

Quantum repeater networks require independent quantum memories capable of storing and retrieving indistinguishable photons to perform high-repetition entanglement swapping operations. The ability to perform these coherent operations at room…

We consider the coherent stimulated Raman process developing in an optically dense and disordered atomic medium in application to the quantum memory scheme. Our theoretical model predicts that the hyperfine interaction in the excited state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-29 A. S. Sheremet , O. S. Mishina , E. Giacobino , D. V. Kupriyanov

We investigate in detail the optimal conditions for a high fidelity transfer from a single-polariton state to a single-photon state and subsequent homodyne detection of the single photon. We assume that, using various possible techniques,…

We propose probabilistic controlled-NOT and controlled-phase gates for qubits stored in the polarization of photons. The gates are composed of linear optics and photon detectors, and consume polarization entangled photon pairs. The fraction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masato Koashi , Takashi Yamamoto , Nobuyuki Imoto

In this work, we propose performing key operations in quantum computation and communication using room-temperature atoms moving across a grid of high-quality-factor, small-mode-volume cavities. These cavities enable high-cooperativity…

We propose a scheme for long-distance quantum communication where the elementary entanglement is generated through two-photon interference and quantum swapping is performed through one-photon interference. Local "polarization" maximally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-03 Fang-Yu Hong , Shi-Jie Xiong , W. H. Tang

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Matt Himsworth , Peter Nisbet , Jerome Dilley , Gunnar Langfahl-Klabes , Axel Kuhn

We design a quantum circuit in IBM quantum computer that mimics the dynamics of single photon in a coupled cavity system. By suitably choosing the gate parameters in the quantum circuit, we could transfer an unknown qubit state between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Nilakantha Meher , Bikash K. Behera , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We propose a scheme to implement the quantum teleportation protocol with single atoms trapped in cavities. The scheme is based on the adiabatic passage and the polarization measurement. We show that it is possible to teleport the internal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Jaeyoon Cho , Hai-Woong Lee