Heralded Single-Magnon Quantum Memory for Photon Polarization States

We demonstrate a heralded quantum memory where a photon announces the mapping of a light polarization state onto a single collective-spin excitation (magnon) shared between two atomic ensembles. The magnon can be converted at a later time into a single polarized photon with polarization fidelity ove...

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Main Authors: Simon, Jonathan (Contributor), Ghosh, Saikat (Contributor), Vuletic, Vladan (Contributor), Bloom, Benjamin (Contributor), Tanji, Haruka (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society, 2010-01-29T19:50:31Z.
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520 |a We demonstrate a heralded quantum memory where a photon announces the mapping of a light polarization state onto a single collective-spin excitation (magnon) shared between two atomic ensembles. The magnon can be converted at a later time into a single polarized photon with polarization fidelity over 90(2)% for all fiducial input states, well above the classical limit of 2/3. The process can be viewed as a nondestructive quantum probe where a photon is detected, stored, and regenerated without touching its-potentially undetermined-polarization. 
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