Quantum nonlinear optics with single photons enabled by strongly interacting atoms

Thibault Peyronel, Ofer Firstenberg, Qi-Yu Liang, Sebastian Hofferberth, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Thomas Pohl, Mikhail D. Lukin () and Vladan Vuletić ()
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Thibault Peyronel: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ofer Firstenberg: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Qi-Yu Liang: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sebastian Hofferberth: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexey V. Gorshkov: Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, California Institute of Technology
Thomas Pohl: Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
Mikhail D. Lukin: Harvard University
Vladan Vuletić: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nature, 2012, vol. 488, issue 7409, 57-60

Abstract: A cold, dense atomic gas is found to be optically nonlinear at the level of individual quanta, thereby opening possibilities for quantum-by-quantum control of light fields, including single-photon switching and deterministic quantum logic.

Date: 2012
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