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Following the idea of a recent paper [M. D. Lukin, S. F. Yelin, and M. Fleischhauer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 4232 (2000)], a two-species ion Coulomb-crystal inside an optical cavity is proposed as a medium for storage of the quantum state of a light pulse.
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Mortensen, A., Jensen, F.K., Voigt, D., Drewsen, M. (2003). Ion Coulomb-crystals: A medium for storage of quantum states of light?. In: Bigelow, N.P., Eberly, J.H., Stroud, C.R., Walmsley, I.A. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VIII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8907-9_60
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