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arXiv:1006.5517 · Physical Review A

Quantum interference of stored dual-channel spin-wave excitations in a single tripod system

Hai Wang, Shujing Li, Zhongxiao Xu, Xingbo Zhao, Lijun Zhang, Jiahua Li, Yuelong Wu, Changde Xie, Kunchi Peng, Min Xiao

Published Apr 13, 2011• 36 citations
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Abstract

We present an experimental demonstration of dual-channel memory in a single tripod atomic system. The total readout signal exhibits either constructive or destructive interference when the dual-channel spin-wave excitations (SWEs) are retrieved by two reading beams with a controllable relative phase. When the two reading beams have opposite phases, the SWEs will remain in the medium, which can be retrieved later with two in-phase reading beams. Such a phase-sensitive storage and retrieval scheme can be used to measure and control the relative phase between the two SWEs in the memory medium, which may find applications in quantum-information processing.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.83.043815

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