Efficient and long-lived quantum memory with cold atoms inside a ring cavity

Nature Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 517-521

  Bao, Xiao Hui ^a,b   Reingruber, Andreas ^a   Dietrich, Peter ^a   Rui, Jun ^b   Dück, Alexander ^a   Strassel, Thorsten ^a   Li, Li ^b   Liu, Nai Le ^b   Zhao, Bo ^b   Pan, Jian Wei ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPIN WAVES;

ATOMIC ENSEMBLE; FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCKS; INTRINSIC SPIN; LINEAR OPTICAL QUANTUM COMPUTATION; LONG WAVELENGTH; PHOTON CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RETRIEVAL EFFICIENCY; SCALABLE QUANTUM INFORMATION;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84863427137     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2324     Document Type: Article

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