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Room-temperature single-photon source with near-millisecond built-in memory.


ABSTRACT: Non-classical photon sources are a crucial resource for distributed quantum networks. Photons generated from matter systems with memory capability are particularly promising, as they can be integrated into a network where each source is used on-demand. Among all kinds of solid state and atomic quantum memories, room-temperature atomic vapours are especially attractive due to their robustness and potential scalability. To-date room-temperature photon sources have been limited either in their memory time or the purity of the photonic state. Here we demonstrate a single-photon source based on room-temperature memory. Following heralded loading of the memory, a single photon is retrieved from it after a variable storage time. The single-photon character of the retrieved field is validated by the strong suppression of the two-photon component with antibunching as low as [Formula: see text]. Non-classical correlations between the heralding and the retrieved photons are maintained for up to [Formula: see text], more than two orders of magnitude longer than previously demonstrated with other room-temperature systems. Correlations sufficient for violating Bell inequalities exist for up to τBI = (0.15 ± 0.03) ms.

SUBMITTER: Dideriksen KB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8211654 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Room-temperature single-photon source with near-millisecond built-in memory.

Dideriksen Karsten B KB   Schmieg Rebecca R   Zugenmaier Michael M   Polzik Eugene S ES  

Nature communications 20210617 1


Non-classical photon sources are a crucial resource for distributed quantum networks. Photons generated from matter systems with memory capability are particularly promising, as they can be integrated into a network where each source is used on-demand. Among all kinds of solid state and atomic quantum memories, room-temperature atomic vapours are especially attractive due to their robustness and potential scalability. To-date room-temperature photon sources have been limited either in their memo  ...[more]

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