Deterministic synthesis and processing of frequency-bin qubits in a macroscopically coherent quantum memory
quant-ph, physics.app-ph, physics.optics
Submitted: 2026-09-19
Updated: 2026-09-27
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Quantum information processing requires efficient storage and manipulation of photonic states.
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Abstract
Quantum information processing requires efficient storage and manipulation of photonic states. In this work, we harness pre-created macroscopic spin coherence as an additional degree of freedom to control a cavity-assisted quantum memory. We derive equations of motion for such a memory that predict efficient emission and absorption of two-color fields under a generalized nonlocal spectral impedance-matching condition, which reduces to the well-known condition in the single-mode case. These equations reveal a new operating mechanism of cavity-assisted quantum memory wherein the controlled spin coherence couples the emitted spectral modes. As a result, our memory deterministically synthesizes arbitrary frequency-bin photonic qubits using simple radio-frequency rotations, while the temporal reversibility of the protocol provides perfect transformation of the qubit states. Our findings establish a unified platform bridging quantum storage with elementary signal processing for quantum networks based on spectral encoding of photonic qubits.
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