Quantum memories: emerging applications and recent advances.
Quantum light-matter interfaces are at the heart of photonic quantum technologies. Quantum memories for photons, where non-classical states of photons are mapped onto stationary matter states and preserved for subsequent retrieval, are technical realizations enabled by exquisite control over interactions between light and matter. The ability of quantum memories to synchronize probabilistic events makes them a key component in quantum repeaters and quantum computation based on linear optics. This critical feature has motivated many groups to dedicate theoretical and experimental research to develop quantum memory devices. In recent years, exciting new applications, and more advanced developments of quantum memories, have proliferated. In this review, we outline some of the emerging applications of quantum memories in optical signal processing, quantum computation and non-linear optics. We review recent experimental and theoretical developments, and their impacts on more advanced photonic quantum technologies based on quantum memories.
National Research Council of Canada , Ottawa , Canada .
Khabat
K
Heshami
National Research Council of Canada , Ottawa , Canada .
Duncan G
DG
England
Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford , Oxford , UK .
Peter C
PC
Humphreys
National Research Council of Canada , Ottawa , Canada .
Philip J
PJ
Bustard
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Center for High Technology Materials , Albuquerque , NM , USA .
Victor M
VM
Acosta
Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford , Oxford , UK .
Joshua
J
Nunn
National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.; Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Benjamin J
BJ
Sussman
Quantum memories; light-matter interfaces; optical quantum information processing
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