A millisecond quantum memory for scalable quantum networks

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 95-99

  Zhao, Bo ^a   Chen, Yu Ao ^a,b   Bao, Xiao Hui ^a,b   Strassel, Thorsten ^a   Chuu, Chih Sung ^a   Jin, Xian Min ^b   Schmiedmayer, Jörg ^c   Yuan, Zhen Sheng ^a,b   Chen, Shuai ^a   Pan, Jian Wei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c TU WIEN   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; MAGNETIC STORAGE; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPIN WAVES;

ATOMIC ENSEMBLE; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; LONG WAVELENGTH; QUANTUM NETWORK; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SCALABLE QUANTUM INFORMATION; SINGLE EXCITATION;

QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

EID: 59349117309     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1153     Document Type: Article

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