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Researchers teleport a quantum state from light to atoms

May 10, 2006

Jacob Sherson and colleagues teleport a quantum state from a light pulse onto an ensemble of caesium atoms. The transfer is deterministic and connects light, which can carry information, with atoms, which can store it.

Why it matters

Transferring quantum states between light and matter provides an interface between communication channels and quantum memories for distributed quantum networks.

Jacob Sherson · Hanna Krauter · Eugene Polzik

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