On-demand storage and retrieval of single photons from a semiconductor quantum dot in a room-temperature atomic vapor memory

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.15663v1
• Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:53:02 GMT
• Title: On-demand storage and retrieval of single photons from a semiconductor quantum dot in a room-temperature atomic vapor memory
• Authors: Benjamin Maaß, Avijit Barua, Norman Vincenz Ewald, Elizabeth Robertson, Kartik Gaur, Suk In Park, Sven Rodt, Jin-Dong Song, Stephan Reitzenstein, Janik Wolters,
• Abstract summary: We show on-demand storage and retrieval of single photons from a semiconductor quantum dot device in a room-temperature atomic vapor memory. A deterministically fabricated InGaAs quantum dot light source emits single photons at the wavelength of the cesium D1 line at 895,nm. We show control over the interaction between the single photons and the atomic vapor, allowing for variable retrieval times of up to 19.8(3),ns at an internal efficiency of $eta_mathrmint=0.6(1)%$.
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• Abstract: Interfacing light from solid-state single-photon sources with scalable and robust room-temperature quantum memories has been a long-standing challenge in photonic quantum information technologies due to inherent noise processes and time-scale mismatches between the operating conditions of solid-state and atomic systems. Here, we demonstrate on-demand storage and retrieval of single photons from a semiconductor quantum dot device in a room-temperature atomic vapor memory. A deterministically fabricated InGaAs quantum dot light source emits single photons at the wavelength of the cesium D1 line at 895\,nm which exhibit an inhomogeneously broadened linewidth of 5.1(7)\,GHz and are subsequently stored in a low-noise ladder-type cesium vapor memory. We show control over the interaction between the single photons and the atomic vapor, allowing for variable retrieval times of up to 19.8(3)\,ns at an internal efficiency of $\eta_\mathrm{int}=0.6(1)\%$. Our results significantly expand the application space of both room-temperature vapor memories and semiconductor quantum dots in future quantum network architectures.

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