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We propose a multi-mode quantum memory protocol able to store the quantum state of the field in a microwave resonator into an ensemble of electronic spins. The stored information is protected against inhomogeneous broadening of the spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-20 Brian Julsgaard , Cécile Grezes , Patrice Bertet , Klaus Mølmer

Quantum key distribution protocols have been designed for layered networks employing multidimensional entangled and separable orbital angular momentum states [Phys. Rev. A 97, 032312 (2018), Int. J. Theor. Phys. 62, 104 (2023)]. This paper…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Rajni Bala , Sooryansh Asthana

We study the coherent storage and retrieval of a very short multimode light pulse in an atomic ensemble. We consider a quantum memory process based on the conversion of a signal pulse into a long-lived spin coherence via light matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-27 T. Golubeva , Yu. Golubev , O. Mishina , A. Bramati , J. Laurat , E. Giacobino

We investigate a scheme of atomic quantum memory to store photonic qubits of polarization in cavity QED. It is observed that the quantum-state swapping between a single-photon pulse and a $ \Lambda $-type atom can be made via scattering in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hiroyuki Yamada , Katsuji Yamamoto

We report the experimental observation of slow-light and coherent storage in a setting where light is tightly confined in the transverse directions. By interfacing a tapered optical nanofiber with a cold atomic ensemble, electromagnetically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-12 B. Gouraud , D. Maxein , A. Nicolas , O. Morin , J. Laurat

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-12 J. Nunn , K. Reim , K. C. Lee , V. O. Lorenz , B. Sussman , I. A. Walmsley , D. Jaksch

We present an approach for measuring the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light tailored towards applications in spectroscopy and non-integer OAM values. It is based on the OAM sorting method (Berkhout et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153601…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-05 Bernd Berger , Marius Kahlert , Daniel Schmidt , Marc Aßmann

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light holds great promise for applications in optical communication, super-resolution imaging, and high-dimensional quantum computing. However, the spatio-temporal coherence of the light source has been…

Scalable implementation of quantum networks and photonic processors require integrated photonic memories with high efficiency, yet current integrated systems have been limited to storage efficiencies below 27.8%. Here, we demonstrate highly…

Quantum protocols require access to large-scale entangled quantum states, due to the requirement of channel capacity. As a promising candidate, the high-dimensional orbital angular momentum (OAM) entangled states have been implemented, but…

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…

An efficient quantum storage is highly desired for quantum information processing. As indicated by certain applications, a universal quantum storage is required to have a storage efficiency above 50% to beat the no-cloning limit. Although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Jianfeng Li , Yunfei Wang , Shanchao Zhang , Junyu He , Aiqin Cheng , Hui Yan , Shi-Liang Zhu

Microwave-optical transducers and quantum memories are fundamental components of quantum repeaters, essential for developing a quantum internet in which solid-state quantum computers serve as nodes interconnected by optical fibers for data…

We have proposed a scheme of multi-qubit \textit{quantum random access memory} (qRAM) based on the impedance matched photon echo quantum memory incorporated together with the control three-level atom in two coupled QED cavities. A set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-16 E. S. Moiseev , S. A. Moiseev

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

In quantum communications, vortex photons can encode higher-dimensional quantum states and build high-dimensional communication networks (HDCNs). The interfaces that connect different wavelengths are significant in HDCNs. We construct a…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-27 Shi-long Liu , Shi-kai Liu , Yin-hai Li , Shuai shi , Zhi-yuan Zhou , Bao-sen Shi

We report an experimental realization of an atomic vapor quantum memory for the photonic po- larization qubit. The performance of the quantum memory for the polarization qubit, realized with electromagnetically-induced transparency in two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Young-Wook Cho , Yoon-Ho Kim

Using spontaneous parametric down conversion as a source of entangled photon pairs, correlations are measured between the orbital angular momentum (OAM) in a target beam (which contains an unknown object) and that in an empty reference…

A quantum memory for light is a key element for the realization of future quantum information networks. Requirements for a good quantum memory are (i) versatility (allowing a wide range of inputs) and (ii) true quantum coherence (preserving…

We propose a method that enables efficient storage and retrieval of a photonic excitation stored in an ensemble quantum memory consisting of Lambda-type absorbers with non-zero Stokes shift. We show that this can be used to implement a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Surmacz , J. Nunn , F. C. Waldermann , K. C. Lee , Z. Wang , I. A. Walmsley , D. Jaksch