title: Memory for light as a quantum process.
abstract: We report complete characterization of an optical memory based on electromagnetically induced transparency. We recover the superoperator associated with the memory, under two different working conditions, by means of a quantum process tomography technique that involves storage of coherent states and their characterization upon retrieval. In this way, we can predict the quantum state retrieved from the memory for any input, for example, the squeezed vacuum or the Fock state. We employ the acquired superoperator to verify the nonclassicality benchmark for the storage of a Gaussian distributed set of coherent states.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lobino
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kupchak
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Figueroa
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Lvovsky