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Nature Research, Scientific Reports, 1(4), 2014

DOI: 10.1038/srep03941

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Manipulating Frequency-Bin Entangled States in Cold Atoms

Journal article published in 2014 by A. Zavatta ORCID, M. Artoni, D. Viscor, G. La Rocca
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Abstract

Optical manipulation of entanglement harnessing the frequency degree of freedom is important for encoding of quantum information. We here devise a phase-resonant excitation mechanism of an atomic interface where full control of a narrowband single-photon two-mode frequency entangled state can be efficiently achieved. We illustrate the working physical mechanism for an interface made of cold Rb-87 atoms where entanglement is well preserved from degradation over a typical 100 mu m length scale of the interface and with fractional delays of the order of unity. The scheme provides a basis for efficient multi-frequency and multi-photon entanglement, which is not easily accessible to polarization and spatial encoding.