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Gradient Echo Quantum Memory in Warm Atomic Vapor
Published on: November 11, 2013
Site-Selective Cavity Readout and Classical Error Correction of a 5-Bit Atomic Register
Beili Hu1, Josiah Sinclair1, Edita Bytyqi1
1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Abstract:
Optical cavities can provide fast and nondestructive readout of individual atomic qubits; however, scaling up to many qubits remains a challenge. Using locally addressed excited-state Stark shifts to tune atoms out of resonance, we realize site-selective hyperfine-state cavity readout across a ten-site array. The state discrimination fidelity is 0.994(1) for one atom and 0.989(2) averaged over the entire array at a survival probability of 0.975(1). To further speed up array readout, we demonstrate adaptive search strategies utilizing global or subset checks. Finally, we demonstrate repeated rounds of classical error correction, showing exponential suppression of logical error and extending logical memory fivefold beyond the single-bit idling lifetime.

