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Atomic frequency comb memory with spin wave storage in 153Eu3+:Y2SiO5

Quantum Physics 2012-12-21 v1

Abstract

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 Hz). Here we show an atomic frequency comb memory with spin wave storage in a promising material 153Eu3+:Y2SiO5, reaching storage times slightly beyond 10 {\mu}s. We analyze the efficiency of the storage process and discuss ways of improving it. We also measure the inhomogeneous spin linewidth of 153Eu3+:Y2SiO5, which we find to be 69 \pm 3 kHz. These results represent a further step towards realising a long lived multi mode solid state quantum memory.

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@article{arxiv.1202.4314,
  title  = {Atomic frequency comb memory with spin wave storage in 153Eu3+:Y2SiO5},
  author = {N. Timoney and B. Lauritzen and I. Usmani and M. Afzelius and N. Gisin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.4314},
  year   = {2012}
}

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7 pages and 7 figures

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