Storing single photons emitted by a quantum memory on a highly excited Rydberg state

The state of a single photon can be stored as a Rydberg excitation using electromagnetically induced transparency, and this enables nonlinear interactions at the single-photon level. Here, the authors store a paired photon emitted by a quantum memory in an ensemble-based, highly nonlinear medium.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Emanuele Distante, Pau Farrera, Auxiliadora Padrón-Brito, David Paredes-Barato, Georg Heinze, Hugues de Riedmatten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-01-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14072