Possibility of inhomogeneous coupling leading to decoherence in an electromagnetically-induced-transparency quantum-memory process

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Liu, Xiong Jun ^a,b   Liu, Zheng Xin ^b,c   Liu, Xin ^b,c   Ge, Mo Lin ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; ELECTROMAGNETISM; QUANTUM THEORY;

ATOMIC STATES; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY (EIT); INHOMOGENEOUS COUPLINGS; QUANTUM MEMORIES;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 33144457583     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.013825     Document Type: Article

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