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Memory Efficient Atom-Photon Interface for Unary Encoded Photonic Qudits

J. Gabriel Richardson, Prajit Dhara, Aqil Sajjad, Saikat Guha

Published Jan 1, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present a deterministic memory-photon interface for transducing unary encoded photonic qudits into a logarithmic sized bank of memories. Our interface supports high fidelity encoding transduction under realistic loss and detector dark noise parameters.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2026.jw1.117

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