Carlo Ottaviani

Creating Single Collective Atomic Excitations via Spontaneous Raman Emission in Inhomogeneously Broadened Systems : Beyond the Adiabatic Approximation (2009)

Ottaviani, Carlo, Simon, Christoph, De Riedmatten, Hugues, Afzelius, Mikael, Lauritzen, Bjoern, Sangouard, Nicolas, ...

The creation of single collective excitations in atomic ensembles via spontaneous Raman emission plays a key role in several quantum communication protocols, starting with the seminal DLCZ protocol...

Cross phase modulation in a five--level atomic medium: Semiclassical theory (2005)

Ottaviani, Carlo, Rebic, Stojan, Vitali, David, Tombesi, Paolo

The interaction of a five-level atomic system involving electromagnetically induced transparency with four light fields is investigated. Two different light-atom configurations are considered, and...

Polarization qubit phase gate in driven atomic media (2003)

Ottaviani, Carlo, Vitali, David, Artoni, Maurizio, Cataliotti, Francesco, Tombesi, Paolo

We present here an all--optical scheme for the experimental realization of a quantum phase gate. It is based on the polarization degree of freedom of two travelling single photon wave-packets and...