We investigate a hybrid quantum circuit where ensembles of cold polar molecules serve as long-lived quantum memories and optical interfaces for solid state quantum processors. The quantum memory realized by collective spin states (ensemble qubit) is coupled to a high-Q stripline cavity via microwave Raman processes. We show that, for convenient trap-surface distances of a few microm, strong cou...

Freeman's Mass Action (FMA) refers to the collective synaptic actions that neurons in the cortex exert on each other in vast numbers by synchronizing their firing of action potentials. In the aggregate, FMA is a powerful force that creates bursts of cortical neural activity that resemble the vortices of tornadoes and hurricanes. The bursts rapidly and repeatedly retrieve memories and bind them ...

We consider a team setting where forgetful players with limited memories have costly but socially efficient tasks to complete. Each teammate promises to complete some subset of the tasks, and strategically memorizes her own promises as well as a subset of her teammates’ promises. She can be contractually punished for an unfulfilled promise only if another player remembers it. Hence the team’s c...

The history and memories of past events are relayed through popular culture, the media and the public sphere. City tours organized for tourists can be said to be a special part of popular culture and the public sphere. Since 2006 there has been an organised war tour in the City of Dubrovnik which follows the “routes” of war aggression and the devastation of the town. In this paper, one such spe...

From families to nations, what binds individuals in social groups is the degree to which they share beliefs, norms, and memories. While local clusters of communicating individuals can sustain shared memories and norms, communities characterized by isolated cliques are susceptible to information fragmentation and polarization dynamics. We employ experimental manipulations in lab-created communit...

We show how to efficiently exploit decoherence free subspaces, which are immune to collective noise, for realizing quantum repeaters with long lived quantum memories. Our setup consists of an assembly of simple modules and we show how to implement them in systems of cold, neutral atoms in arrays of dipole traps. We develop methods for realizing robust gate operations on qubits encoded in a DFS ...

Large-scale quantum networks require memories featuring long-lived storage of non-classical light together with efficient, high-speed and reliable operation. The concurrent realization these features is challenging due to inherent limitations matter platforms light-matter interaction protocols. Here, we propose an approach overcome this obstacle, based on the implementation Autler-Townes-splitt...

Genocide remembrance is a complex epistemological/ethical achievement, whereby survivors and descendants give meaning to the past in quest for both personal-historical social-historical truth. This paper offers an argument of epistemic injustice specifically as it occurs relation practices (individual collective) genocide remembrance. In particular, I argue that under conditions denialism, unde...