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STUDY OF STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF SINGLE-PHOTON QUANTUM STATE IN A COLLECTIVE ATOMIC EXCITATIONS

I.I. BABAYO, A.M LIMAN, A. B. Ahmed

Published Jun 13, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this article, the probe pulse (that is, of single-photon quantum states) which can be stored in longlive cavity dark state is investigated. The transfer of the single photon state to the collective cavitydark state can be accomplished with nearly a hundred percent efficiently by the method ofintracavity EIT and assumption of quantum impedance matching condition whereby the classicaldriving field is adiabatically switched off while the probe laser is inside the dense ensemble of atomsand cos θ is optimized for any input pulse respectively is clearly described. It is noted that, thismethod of using an optically-dense many-atom medium is far superior and efficient than the techniquewith single atoms processed in the strong coupling system.

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We propose to couple single atomic qubits to photons incident on a cavity containing an atomic ensemble of a different species that mediates the coupling via Rydberg interactions. Subject to a classical field and the cavity field, the ensemble forms a collective dark state which is resonant with the input photon, while excitation of a qubit atom leads to a secondary ``dark'' state that splits the cavity resonance. The two different dark-state mechanisms yield zero and $\ensuremath{\pi}$ reflection phase shifts and can be used to implement quantum gates between atomic and optical qubits.
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