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Analysis of controlled coherence conversion in a double rephasing scheme of photon echoes for quantum memories

Rahmatullah Rahmatullah, Byoung Seung HAM

Published Dec 7, 2016• 4 citations
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Abstract

A controlled double rephasing (CDR) photon echo is analyzed for inversion-free photon echoes using controlled coherence conversion (CCC), where an optical Rabi flopping between an excited and an auxiliary ground states is used for atom phase control for emissive photon echoes. Unlike the rephasing mechanism in photon echoes, the CCC induces coherence inversion to the intrinsic absorptive echoes in a double rephasing scheme. Thus, the CDR echo protocol can be vastly applied for modified photon-echo quantum memories.

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A double rephasing scheme of a photon echo is analyzed for inversion-free photon echo-based quantum memories using controlled Rabi flopping, where the Rabi flopping is used for phase control of collective atom coherence. Unlike the rephasing-caused π-phase shift in a single rephasing scheme, the control Rabi flopping between the excited state and an auxiliary third state induces coherence inversion. Thus, the absorptive photon echo in a double rephasing scheme can be manipulated to be emissive. Here, we present a quantum coherence control of atom phases in a double rephasing photon echo scheme for emissive photon echoes for quantum memory applications.
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