Efficient excitation of a symmetric collective atomic state with a single-photon through dipole blockade

Fang-Yu Hong, Shi-Jie Xiong, W. H. Tang

In the famous quantum communication scheme developed by Duan {\it et al.}[L.M. Duan, M.D. Lukin, J.I. Cirac, and P. Zoller, Nature (London) {\bf 414} 413 (2001)], the probability o…