Photon-photon gates in Bose-Einstein condensates

Arnaud Rispe, Bing He, Christoph Simon

Published 2010-09-30Version 1

It has recently been shown that light can be stored in Bose-Einstein condensates for over a second. Here we propose a method for realizing a controlled phase gate between two stored photons. The photons are both stored in the ground state of the effective trapping potential inside the condensate. The collision-induced interaction is enhanced by adiabatically increasing the trapping frequency and by using a Feshbach resonance. A controlled phase shift of $\pi$ can be achieved in one second.