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A strong hybrid couple

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A single atom in an optical cavity is shown to interact strongly with an incoming photon and to switch the photon's state. This finding opens up a path towards optical quantum computation and quantum networks. See Letters p.237 & p.241

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Figure 1: An optical switch.

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  1. Luming Duan is in the Physics Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 418003, USA, and in the Center for Quantum Information, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.,

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