Abstract
In order to build long-distance quantum communications, quantum memories are required as a synchronization tool which allows entanglement to be stored and retrieved on-demand, when the system is ready to perform entanglement swapping [1]. The storage-and-retrieval efficiency is a key parameter: an increase from 60% to 90% drastically decreases, typically by 2 orders of magnitude, the average time for entanglement distribution over a distance of 600 kilometers. Within this context, we reported quantum transfer between light and cold-atom-based quantum memory featuring a single mode storage-and-retrieval efficiency as high as 87%(±5%), in the single excitation regime [2]. Moreover, we demonstrated the storage of single-photon entanglement into two memories, with a ratio of the input and output concurrences reaching 88%, a more than three-fold increase compared to prior works (Fig. 1). The demonstrated capability required operating at a very large optical depth (OD) of the atomic ensembles on the D1 line of cesium, and with a strong and preserved suppression of the two-photon component.
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