Quantum memory for photons: Dark-state polaritons

By Michael Fleischhauer, Mikhail D. Lukin. 2001

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An ideal and reversible transfer technique for the quantum state between light and metastable collective states of matter is presented and analyzed in detail. The method is based on the control of photon propagation in coherently driven three-level atomic media, in which the group velocity is adiabatically reduced to zero. Form-stable coupled excitations of light and matter ~‘‘dark-state polaritons’’ ! associated with the propagation of quantum fields in electromagnetically induced transparency are identified, their basic properties discussed and their application for quantum memories for light analyzed.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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Multiphoton entanglement and interferometry (2008, background): “Along this line, theoretical ideas on quantum light memory has been proposed (Kozhekin et al., 2000; Lukin et al., 2000; Fleischhauer and Lukin, 2000, 2002; Duan et al., 2001; Duan, Cirac, and Zoller, 2002; Chen et al., 2007), and the relevant experimental advances (Kash et al., 1999; Phillips et…”
Colloquium: Trapping and manipulating photon states in atomic ensembles (2003, background): “3), as long as the group velocity vg(t) is only a function of time (Fleischhauer and Lukin, 2002).”
Exponential Improvement in Photon Storage Fidelities Using Subradiance and “Selective Radiance” in Atomic Arrays (2017, methodology): “it can readily be shown [103] that the excited-state pop-”
Optical quantum memory (2009, background): “1(c)], which implies reduction of the group velocity by a factor of ng ∼ αcWline/4Ω(2) with respect to the velocity of light in vacuum c [32, 33].”
Quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles and linear optics (2009, methodology): “A light storage experiment with bright coherent pulses based on Electro-magnetically induced transparency (EIT) has also been recently demonstrated with Rb atoms confined in a 3 dimensional optical lattice, leading to a storage lifetime of 240 ms (Schnorrberger et al., 2009).”
Processing quantum information in diamond (2006, background): “Besides the controlled generation of single photons and photon pairs, the development of quantum memories and repeaters will be of crucial importance in future quantum information technology (Fleischhauer and Lukin 2002, Briegel et al 1999).”
Linear optical quantum computing with photonic qubits (2005, background): “Other proposals include dark-state polaritons (Fleischhauer and Lukin 2002), and single-photon cavity QED (Maı̂tre et al. 1997).”