Quantum information at the interface of light with atomic ensembles and micromechanical oscillators

Quantum Information Processing

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 839-863

  Muschik, Christine A ^a   Krauter, Hanna ^b   Hammerer, Klemens ^c   Polzik, Eugene S ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic ensembles; Light matter interface; Optomechanics

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC ENSEMBLE; ATOMIC SPIN; ATOMIC VAPOR; BACKACTION; COLD ATOM CLOCKS; GENERAL DYNAMICS; HEISENBERG; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; LONG DISTANCES; MICROMECHANICAL OSCILLATORS; OPTO-MECHANICS; PROPAGATING PULSE; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM MEMORIES; QUANTUM NON-DEMOLITION; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SQUEEZED STATE;

ATOMS; DATA PROCESSING; EXCHANGE INTERACTIONS; FARADAY EFFECT; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; SOLID STATE OSCILLATORS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 80755189896     PISSN: 15700755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11128-011-0294-2     Document Type: Review

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