Fast storage of photons in cavity-assisted quantum memories
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| author | Kollath-Bönig, Johann S. Dellantonio, Luca Giannelli, Luigi Schmit, Tom Morigi, Giovanna Sørensen, Anders S. |
| author_facet | Kollath-Bönig, Johann S. Dellantonio, Luca Giannelli, Luigi Schmit, Tom Morigi, Giovanna Sørensen, Anders S. |
| contents | Ideal photonic quantum memories can store arbitrary pulses of light with unit efficiency. This requires operating in the adiabatic regime, where pulses have a duration much longer than the bandwidth of the memory. In the non-adiabatic regime of short pulses, memories are therefore imperfect, and information is always lost. We theoretically investigate the bandwidth limitations for setups based on individual atoms, or ensembles thereof, confined inside optical cavities. We identify an effective strategy for optimizing the efficiencies of the storage and retrieval process regardless of the duration of the pulses. Our protocol is derived almost completely analytically and attains efficiencies better than or comparable to those obtained by numerical optimization. Furthermore, our results provide an improved understanding of the performance of quantum memories in several regimes. When considering pulses defined on an infinite time interval, the shapes can be divided into two categories, depending on their asymptotic behaviours. If the intensity of the pulse increases with time slower than or as an exponential function, then the storage efficiency is only limited by the pulse width. For pulses defined on a finite interval, on the other hand, the efficiency is determined by the shape at the beginning of the storage or, correspondingly, at the end of the retrieval process. |
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| spellingShingle | Fast storage of photons in cavity-assisted quantum memories Kollath-Bönig, Johann S. Dellantonio, Luca Giannelli, Luigi Schmit, Tom Morigi, Giovanna Sørensen, Anders S. Quantum Physics Ideal photonic quantum memories can store arbitrary pulses of light with unit efficiency. This requires operating in the adiabatic regime, where pulses have a duration much longer than the bandwidth of the memory. In the non-adiabatic regime of short pulses, memories are therefore imperfect, and information is always lost. We theoretically investigate the bandwidth limitations for setups based on individual atoms, or ensembles thereof, confined inside optical cavities. We identify an effective strategy for optimizing the efficiencies of the storage and retrieval process regardless of the duration of the pulses. Our protocol is derived almost completely analytically and attains efficiencies better than or comparable to those obtained by numerical optimization. Furthermore, our results provide an improved understanding of the performance of quantum memories in several regimes. When considering pulses defined on an infinite time interval, the shapes can be divided into two categories, depending on their asymptotic behaviours. If the intensity of the pulse increases with time slower than or as an exponential function, then the storage efficiency is only limited by the pulse width. For pulses defined on a finite interval, on the other hand, the efficiency is determined by the shape at the beginning of the storage or, correspondingly, at the end of the retrieval process. |
| title | Fast storage of photons in cavity-assisted quantum memories |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.17394 |