Optimum Quantum Memory With Atomic Ensembles

Irina Novikova
College of William and Mary

Optimal Quantum Memory With Atomic Ensembles

Efficient and reliable quantum communication will require the control of the quantum state of individual photons. As a step toward this objective, we have demonstrated promising techniques to optimize the performance of quantum memory based on a dynamic form of electromagnetically induced transparency and allows optimally and reversibility map arbitrary pulses of light onto an ensemble of warm Rubidium atoms. Our techniques, demonstrated in atomic vapor, are applicable to a wide range of systems and protocols.