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Multimode Memories in Atomic Ensembles

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 Added by Joshua Nunn
 Publication date 2009
  fields Physics
and research's language is English




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The ability to store multiple optical modes in a quantum memory allows for increased efficiency of quantum communication and computation. Here we compute the multimode capacity of a variety of quantum memory protocols based on light storage in ensembles of atoms. We find that adding a controlled inhomogeneous broadening improves this capacity significantly.



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