Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2012-01-19
Physics
Quantum Physics
7 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, corrected typos and added ref. 35
Scientific paper
Storage of quantum information encoded into true single photons is an essential constituent of long-distance quantum communication based on quantum repeaters and of optical quantum information processing. The storage of photonic polarization qubits is, however, complicated by the fact that many materials are birefringent and have polarization-dependent absorption. Here we present and demonstrate a simple scheme that allows compensating for these polarization effects. The scheme is demonstrated using a solid-state quantum memory implemented with an ensemble of rare-earth ions doped into a biaxial yttrium orthosilicate ($Y_2SiO_5$) crystal. Heralded single photons generated from a filtered spontaneous parametric downconversion source are stored, and quantum state tomography of the retrieved polarization state reveals an average fidelity of $97.5 \pm 0.4%$, which is significantly higher than what is achievable with a measure-and-prepare strategy.
Afzelius Mikael
Bussieres Felix
Clausen Christoph
Gisin Nicolas
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