Efficient quantum memory for light

Nature

Volumn 465, Issue 7301, 2010, Pages 1052-1056

  Hedges, Morgan P ^a   Longdell, Jevon J ^b   Li, Yongmin ^c   Sellars, Matthew J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; OPTICAL METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIGHT; MEMORY; NOISE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 77953935789     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09081     Document Type: Article

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