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Quantum memories matched to single photon sources will form an important cornerstone of future quantum network technology. We demonstrate such a memory in warm Rb vapor with on-demand storage and retrieval, based on electromagnetically…

The ability to coherently control and read out qubits with long coherence times in a scalable system is a crucial requirement for any quantum processor. Nuclear spins in the solid state have shown great promise as long-lived qubits. Control…

Conditional detection is an important tool to extract weak signals from a noisy background and is closely linked to heralding, which is an essential component of protocols for long distance quantum communication and distributed quantum…

We report experimental storage and retrieval of weak coherent states of light at telecommunication wavelengths using erbium ions doped into a solid. We use two photon echo based quantum storage protocols. The first one is based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-28 Björn Lauritzen , Jiří Minář , Hugues de Riedmatten , Mikael Afzelius , Nicolas Gisin

Quantum memories for optical states are essential resources for quantum communication and information processing. We propose a quantum memory protocol based on coherent photon-phonon transduction in a Brillouin-active optical waveguide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Changlong Zhu , Claudiu Genes , Birgit Stiller

We report an optical memory in a rare earth doped crystal with long storage times, up to 20 ms, together with an optical bandwidth of 1.5 MHz. This is obtained by transferring optical coherences to nuclear spin coherences, which were then…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-14 Marko Lovrić , Alban Ferrier , Dieter Suter , Philippe Goldner

We demonstrate experimentally the storage and retrieval of weak coherent light fields at telecommunication wavelengths in a solid. Light pulses at the single photon level are stored for a time up to 600 ns in an Erbium-doped Y$_2$SiO$_5$…

We describe a quantum memory spectral preparation strategy that maximises memory efficiency and bandwidth in materials such as 167 Er3+:Y2SiO5 in a high field regime, where the hyperfine structure is resolved. We demonstrate the method in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 James Stuart , Morgan Hedges , Rose Ahlefeldt , Matthew Sellars

Integrated photonics has emerged as a promising platform for quantum communication and quantum computation. Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has gained significant attention in this field due to its exceptional optical properties, enabling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Xiao-Jie Wang , Yong-Teng Wang , Zi-Wei Zhao , Yong-Min Li , Tian-Shu Yang

We investigate an optical quantum memory scheme with V-type three-level atoms based on the controlled reversible inhomogeneous broadening (CRIB) technique. We theoretically show the possibility to store and retrieve a weak light pulse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-13 D. Viscor , A. Ferraro , Yu. Loiko , R. Corbalán , J. Mompart , V. Ahufinger

We present a demonstration of simultaneous high-efficiency, high-speed, and low-noise operation of a photonic quantum memory. By leveraging controllable collisional dephasing in a neutral barium atomic vapor, we demonstrate a significant…

Noise spectroscopy elucidates the fundamental noise sources in spin systems, thereby serving as an essential tool toward developing spin qubits with long coherence times for quantum information processing, communication, and sensing. But…

The information carrier of today's communications, a weak pulse of light, is an intrinsically quantum object. As a consequence, complete information about the pulse cannot, even in principle, be perfectly recorded in a classical memory. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Brian Julsgaard , Jacob Sherson , J. Ignacio Cirac , Jaromir Fiurasek , Eugene S. Polzik

A quantum memory, for storing and retrieving flying photonic quantum states, is a key interface for realizing long-distance quantum communication and large-scale quantum computation. While many experimental schemes of high storage-retrieval…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Y. Wang , J. Li , S. Zhang , K. Su , Y. Zhou , K. Liao , S. Du , H. Yan , S. L. Zhu

Spin echo is a powerful technique to extend atomic or nuclear coherence time by overcoming the dephasing due to inhomogeneous broadening. However, applying this technique to an ensemble-based quantum memory at single-quanta level remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 Jun Rui , Yan Jiang , Sheng-Jun Yang , Bo Zhao , Xiao-Hui Bao , Jian-Wei Pan

Microwave-to-optical quantum transducers will enable coherent interconnection between distant superconducting quantum devices. Ongoing explorations with several platforms have shown promising results at single-photon levels. However, in all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ujjwal Gautam , Nasser Gohari Kamel , Sourabh Kumar , Daniel Oblak

Quantum memories for optical and microwave photons provide key functionalities in quantum processing and communications. Here we propose a protocol well adapted to solid state ensemble based memories coupled to cavities. It is called Stark…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-14 A. Arcangeli , A. Ferrier , Ph. Goldner

We propose a solid state based protocol to implement the universal quantum storage for electronic spin qubit. The quantum memory in this scheme is the spin wave excitation in the ring array of nuclei in a quantum dot. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. D. Wang , Y. Li , Z. Song , C. P. Sun

153Eu3+:Y2SiO5 is a very attractive candidate for a long lived, multimode quantum memory due to the long spin coherence time (~15 ms), the relatively large hyperfine splitting (100 MHz) and the narrow optical homogeneous linewidth (~100…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 N. Timoney , B. Lauritzen , I. Usmani , M. Afzelius , N. Gisin

We present a detailed analysis of a high-bandwidth quantum memory protocol for storing single photons in a rare-earth-ion doped crystal. The basic idea is to benefit from a coherent free-induced decay type re-emission which occurs naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Valentina Caprara Vivoli , Nicolas Sangouard , Mikael Afzelius , Nicolas Gisin