Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Storing single photons emitted by a quantum memory on a highly excited Rydberg state

  • Emanuele Distante,
  • Pau Farrera,
  • Auxiliadora Padrón-Brito,
  • David Paredes-Barato,
  • Georg Heinze,
  • Hugues de Riedmatten

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14072
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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The state of a single photon can be stored as a Rydberg excitation using electromagnetically induced transparency, and this enables nonlinear interactions at the single-photon level. Here, the authors store a paired photon emitted by a quantum memory in an ensemble-based, highly nonlinear medium.