Towards Deterministic Single Photon Switching Based on One Atom |
| TYPE | Condensed Matter Seminar |
| Speaker: | Barak Dayan |
| Affiliation: | Weizmann Institute |
| Date: | 04.06.2013 |
| Time: | 14:30 |
| Location: | Lidow Nathan Rosen (300) |
| Abstract: | We present a scheme for the demonstration of a 1-atom based single-photon switch, utilizing cavity-QED with toroidal micro-resonators. Practical single-photon switching, namely controlling the direction of one single-photon pulse with a control field that is another single-photon pulse, has not been achieved experimentally to date. The device we propose will also function as a 1-qbit quantum memory, enabling a deterministic quantum state transfer between a single photon and an atom, with no need for any control field. |