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A telecom photon is a suitable information carrier in a fiber-based quantum network due to its lower transmission loss in fiber. Because of the paucity of suitable atomic system, usually the photon connecting different memories is in near…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-16 Dong-Sheng Ding , Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Bao-Sen Shi , Xu-Bo Zou , Guang-Can Guo

Long-duration quantum memories for photonic qubits are essential components for achieving long-distance quantum networks and repeaters. The mapping of optical states onto coherent spin-waves in rare earth ensembles is a particularly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-24 Antonio Ortu , Adrian Holzäpfel , Jean Etesse , Mikael Afzelius

The spectroscopic properties of a single, tightly trapped atom are studied, when the electronic levels are coupled by three laser fields in an $N$-shaped configuration of levels, whereby a $\Lambda$-type level system is weakly coupled to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-16 Caroline Champenois , Giovanna Morigi , Juergen Eschner

The coherence of quantum systems is crucial to quantum information processing. While it has been demonstrated that superconducting qubits can process quantum information at microelectronics rates, it remains a challenge to preserve the…

By harnessing aspects of quantum mechanics, communication and information processing could be radically transformed. Promising forms of quantum information technology include optical quantum cryptographic systems and computing using photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Hosseini , B. M. Sparkes , G. Campbell , P. K. Lam , B. C. Buchler

We present two protocols, one for the storage of light in an atomic ensemble and the subsequent retrieval, and another one for the generation of entanglement between light and atoms. They rely on two passes of a single pulse through the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Christine A. Muschik , Klemens Hammerer , Eugene S. Polzik , J. Ignacio Cirac

An active method for long time storage of quantum superposition state in atomic system using the Oscillating Dark States (ODS) is presented. Quantum state of a three-level $\Lambda$ configuration atomic system oscillates periodically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Jun He , Yong-Sheng Zhang , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Qun-Feng Chen , Guang-Can Guo

Coherent and reversible mapping of quantum information between light and matter is an important experimental challenge in quantum information science. In particular, it is a decisive milestone for the implementation of quantum networks and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-15 Hugues de Riedmatten , Mikael Afzelius , Matthias Staudt , Christoph Simon , Nicolas Gisin

We study the storage of coherences in atomic rubidium vapor with a three-level coupling scheme with two ground states and one electronically excited state driven by one optical (control) and one radiofrequency field. We initially store an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Vladimir Djokic , Georg Enzian , Frank Vewinger , Martin Weitz

The improvement of the multi-mode capability of quantum memory can further improve the utilization efficiency of the quantum memory and reduce the requirement of quantum communication for storage units. In this letter, we experimentally…

We demonstrate the storage of $5$ ns light pulses in a single rubidium atom coupled to a fiber-based optical resonator. Our storage protocol addresses a regime beyond the conventional adiabatic limit and approaches the theoretical bandwidth…

Strong atom-photon interactions on scalable photonic platforms hold significant potential for both atomic and photonic quantum information platforms. In particular, trapping of a single atom on a planar photonic integrated resonator at the…

The utilisation of a quantum memory cell as a beam splitter with arbitrary coefficients is demonstrated theoretically. For such a beam splitter, an input-output matrix is derived. We investigate the high-speed quantum memory based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 A. S. Losev

Trapped-ion quantum information processors store information in atomic ions maintained in position in free space via electric fields. Quantum logic is enacted via manipulation of the ions' internal and shared motional quantum states using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Kenneth R. Brown , John Chiaverini , Jeremy Sage , Hartmut Häffner

Atomic ensembles have many potential applications in quantum information science. Owing to collective enhancement, working with ensembles at high densities increases the overall efficiency of quantum operations, but at the same time also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-28 Yoav Sagi , Ido Almog , Nir Davidson

Cold Rydberg atoms, known for their long lifetimes and strong dipole-dipole interactions that lead to the Rydberg blockade phenomenon, are among the most promising platforms for quantum simulations, quantum computation and quantum networks.…

We describe a simple experimental technique which allows to store a single Rubidium 87 atom in an optical dipole trap. Due to light-induced two-body collisions during the loading stage of the trap the maximum number of captured atoms is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Markus Weber , Juergen Volz , Karen Saucke , Christian Kurtsiefer , Harald Weinfurter

We present two quantum memory protocols for solids: A stopped light approach based on spectral hole burning and the storage in an atomic frequency comb. These procedures are well adapted to the rare-earth ion doped crystals. We carefully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-15 T. Chanelière , R. Lauro , J. Ruggiero , J. -L. Le Gouët

We describe the implementation of a system for studying light-matter interactions using an ensemble of $10^6$ cold rubidium 87 atoms, trapped in a single-beam optical dipole trap. In this configuration the elongated shape of the atomic…

In this article the ability to record, store, and read out the quantum properties of light is studied. The discussion is based on high-speed and adiabatic models of quantum memory in lambda-configuration and in the limit of strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-22 K. Tikhonov , K. Samburskaya , T. Golubeva , Yu. Golubev