Synchronized resistance to inhomogeneous magnetic field-induced dephasing of an image stored in a cold atomic ensemble
arXiv:2102.02011 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.103.053316
Abstract
Long-lived storage of arbitrary transverse multimodes is important for establishing a high-channel-capacity quantum network. Most of the pioneering works focused on atomic diffusion as the dominant impact on the retrieved pattern in an atom-based memory. In this work, we demonstrate that the unsynchronized Larmor precession of atoms in the inhomogeneous magnetic field dominates the distortion of the pattern stored in a cold-atom-based memory. We find that this distortion effect can be eliminated by applying a strong uniform polarization magnetic field. By preparing atoms in magnetically insensitive states, the destructive interference between different spin-wave components is diminished, and the stored localized patterns are synchronized further in a single spin-wave component; then, an obvious enhancement in preserving patterns for a long time is obtained. The reported results are very promising for studying transverse multimode decoherence in storage and high-dimensional quantum networks in the future.
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