Acta Sinica Quantum Optica
Comparative Study on Theories of Light Storage and Magnetic Storage
Hong Mei Guo
Abstract
Recently,direct light storage based on quantum coherent effects has been proved to be effective throngh experiment.Compared with lots of light storage techniques,quantum coherent storage has a lot in common with widely used traditional magnetic storage technique both in theories and applications.Here this paper compares the magnetic storage and the new storage technique based on the theory of dark state polaritons(DSP) realized using electromagnetic induced transparency (EIT) method.Then it's pointed out that the DSP storage time cannot be extended to classical level in free atomic gases with the lack of the correlations between the atoms.Finally,how the problem could be solved is discussed.