Light storage for one second at room temperature
Or Katz, Ofer Firstenberg

TL;DR
This paper demonstrates a novel light storage method in cesium vapor that achieves a record one-second storage time at room temperature by using a decoherence-free subspace, significantly advancing quantum memory technology.
Contribution
The authors introduce a storage scheme insensitive to spin-exchange collisions, enabling long storage times at high atomic densities, with potential for hour-long quantum memories.
Findings
Record 1-second storage time in cesium vapor
Storage scheme is insensitive to spin-exchange collisions
Potential for hour-long quantum memories using rare-gas nuclear spins
Abstract
Light storage, the controlled and reversible mapping of photons onto long-lived states of matter [1], enables memory capability in optical quantum networks [2-6]. Prominent storage media are warm alkali gases due to their strong optical coupling and long-lived spin states [7,8]. In a dense gas, the random atomic collisions dominate the lifetime of the spin coherence, limiting the storage time to a few milliseconds [9,10]. Here we present and experimentally demonstrate a storage scheme that is insensitive to spin-exchange collisions, thus enabling long storage times at high atomic densities. This unique property is achieved by mapping the light field onto spin orientation within a decoherence-free subspace of spin states. We report on a record storage time of 1 second in cesium vapor, a 100-fold improvement over existing storage schemes. Furthermore, our scheme lays the foundations for…
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