Storage and retrieval of single photons transmitted between remote quantum memories

Nature

Volumn 438, Issue 7069, 2005, Pages 833-836

  Chaneliere T ^a   Matsukevich, D N ^a   Jenkins, S D ^a   Lan, S Y ^a   Kennedy, T A B ^a   Kuzmich, A ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC EXCITATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

REMOTE QUANTUM MEMORIES; SINGLE PHOTONS;

PHOTONS;

GLASS FIBER;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXCITATION; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

EID: 28644444804     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04315     Document Type: Article

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