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Broad Bandwidth and High Dimensional Quantum Memory Based on Atomic Ensembles

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Quantum information science is the study of the information processing that may be accomplished by quantum mechanical systems by using all the quantum properties of a physical information carrier. Quantum information science has two main goals: one is the realization of a universal quantum computer, which can help us perform tasks as a classical computer does. The other goal is to realize quantum communication and quantum cryptography networks. Quantum communication can be used to transfer quantum states between remote users, and by quantum cryptography, two legal users can communicate with each other in a secure way. China launched the first-ever quantum communication satellite into space in 2016, and achieved several important advances such as successfully creating and sending entangled photons from space to earth-based ground stations [61]. Quantum memories are indispensable to realize both goals of Quantum information science. In quantum memory, a quantum state such as a single photon, entanglement, or squeezed state of a quantum information carrier is recorded faithfully and recalled on demand. Before introducing the main experimental results on quantum memory, we introduce a brief description of background on quantum information, and quantum memory. Some important parameters of quantum memory, including fidelity, efficiency, bandwidth and capacity etc. are introduced.

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Ding, DS. (2018). Introduction. In: Broad Bandwidth and High Dimensional Quantum Memory Based on Atomic Ensembles. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7476-9_1

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