1. Towards a spin-ensemble quantum memory for superconducting qubits.
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Grezes, Cécile, Kubo, Yuimaru, Julsgaard, Brian, Umeda, Takahide, Isoya, Junichi, Sumiya, Hitoshi, Abe, Hiroshi, Onoda, Shinobu, Ohshima, Takeshi, Nakamura, Kazuo, Diniz, Igor, Auffeves, Alexia, Jacques, Vincent, Roch, Jean-François, Vion, Denis, Esteve, Daniel, Moelmer, Klaus, and Bertet, Patrice
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SUPERCONDUCTING quantum interference devices , *QUBITS , *QUANTUM states , *SINGLE photon generation , *QUANTUM optics - Abstract
This article reviews efforts to build a new type of quantum device, which combines an ensemble of electronic spins with long coherence times, and a small-scale superconducting quantum processor. The goal is to store over long times arbitrary qubit states in orthogonal collective modes of the spin-ensemble, and to retrieve them on-demand. We first present the protocol devised for such a multi-mode quantum memory. We then describe a series of experimental results using NV (as in nitrogen vacancy) center spins in diamond, which demonstrate its main building blocks: the transfer of arbitrary quantum states from a qubit into the spin ensemble, and the multi-mode retrieval of classical microwave pulses down to the single-photon level with a Hahn-echo like sequence. A reset of the spin memory is implemented in-between two successive sequences using optical repumping of the spins. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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