Atom-light hybrid interferometer for atomic sensing with quantum memory

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18373v1
• Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:26:46 GMT
• Title: Atom-light hybrid interferometer for atomic sensing with quantum memory
• Authors: Xingchang Wang, Xinyun Liang, Liang Dong, Ying Zuo, Jianmin Wang, Dasen Yang, Linyu Chen, Georgios A. Siviloglou, Z. Y. Ou, J. F. Chen,
• Abstract summary: atom-light interferometers have lacked an efficient approach to exploit their ultimate atomic sensing performance.<n>Our work may have important applications in building distributed quantum networks through quantum memory-assisted atom-light interferometers.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Quantum memories feature a reversible conversion of optical fields into long-lived atomic spin waves, and are therefore ideal for operating as sensitive atomic sensors. However, up to now, atom-light interferometers have lacked an efficient approach to exploit their ultimate atomic sensing performance, since an extra optical delay line is required to compensate for the memory time. Here, we report a new protocol that records the photocurrent via heterodyne mixing with a stable local oscillator. The obtained complex quadrature amplitude that carries information imprinted on its phase by an external magnetic field, is successfully recovered from the interference patterns between the light and the atomic spin wave, without the stringent requirement of having them overlap in time. Our results reveal that the sensitivity scales favorably with the lifetime of the quantum memory. Our work may have important applications in building distributed quantum networks through quantum memory-assisted atom-light interferometers.

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