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Atoms and photons share quarters

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The demonstration of all-optical switching by confining light and cold rubidium atoms in a hollow-core photonic band-gap fibre may help bring the goal of single-photon switching closer to reality.

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Figure 1: Experimental set-up and switching schemes.

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  1. Barak Dayan is in the Department of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel barak.dayan@weizmann.ac.il,

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  2. Yaron Silberberg is in the Department of Physics of Complex Systems at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel. yaron.silberberg@weizmann.ac.il,

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Dayan, B., Silberberg, Y. Atoms and photons share quarters. Nature Photon 3, 429–430 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.125

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