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View SchemaTrapping of light pulses in ensembles of stationary Lambda atoms
| Authors | Kristian Rymann Hansen, Klaus Molmer |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0701133 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0701133 |
Abstract
We present a detailed theoretical description of the generation of stationary light pulses by standing wave electromagnetically induced transparency in media comprised of stationary atoms. We show that, contrary to thermal gas media, the achievable storage times are limited only by the ground state dephasing rate of the atoms, making such media ideally suited for nonlinear optical interactions between stored pulses. Furthermore, we find significant quantitative and qualitative differences between the two types of media, which are important for quantum information processing schemes involving stationary light pulses.
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