Mapping multiple photonic qubits into and out of one solid-state atomic ensemble

Nature Communications

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Usmani, Imam ^a   Afzelius, Mikael ^a   De Riedmatten, Hugues ^a   Gisin, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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Indexed keywords

LANTHANIDE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EXCITATION; LIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELD; MEASUREMENT; OPTICS; PHOTON; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLID STATE; SPECTROMETRY; QUANTUM THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84880271213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1010     Document Type: Article

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