{"id":168676,"date":"2023-07-30T12:23:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T17:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/research-team-synchronizes-single-photons-using-an-atomic-quantum-memory"},"modified":"2023-07-30T12:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T17:23:42","slug":"research-team-synchronizes-single-photons-using-an-atomic-quantum-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/research-team-synchronizes-single-photons-using-an-atomic-quantum-memory","title":{"rendered":"Research team synchronizes single photons using an atomic quantum memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/research-team-synchronizes-single-photons-using-an-atomic-quantum-memory3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A long-standing challenge in the field of quantum physics is the efficient synchronization of individual and independently generated photons (i.e., light particles). Realizing this would have crucial implications for quantum information processing that relies on interactions between multiple photons.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Weizmann Institute of Science recently demonstrated the synchronization of single, independently generated photons using an atomic quantum memory operating at room-temperature. Their paper, published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, could open new avenues for the study of multi-photon states and their use in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+information+processing\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum information processing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe project idea came about several years ago, when our group and the group of Ian Walmsley demonstrated an atomic quantum memory with an inverted atomic-level scheme compared to the typical memories\u2014the ladder memory, named fast ladder memory (FLAME),\u201d Omri Davidson, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Phys.org. \u201cThese memories are fast and noise-free, and therefore they are useful for synchronization of single photons.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-standing challenge in the field of quantum physics is the efficient synchronization of individual and independently generated photons (i.e., light particles). Realizing this would have crucial implications for quantum information processing that relies on interactions between multiple photons. Researchers at Weizmann Institute of Science recently demonstrated the synchronization of single, independently generated photons using [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}