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arxiv: 2512.20378 · v1 · submitted 2025-12-23 · 🪐 quant-ph · physics.atom-ph· physics.optics

Storage and retrieval of optical skyrmions with topological characteristics

Jinwen Wang , Xin Yang , Yun Chen , Zhujun Ye , Xinji Zeng , Yongkun Zhou , Shuya Zhang , Claire Marie Cisowski
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Chengyuan Wang Katsuya Inoue Yijie Shen Sonja Franke-Arnold Hong Gao
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keywords optical skyrmionstopological protectionEIT memoryquantum storagecold atomsskyrmion number87Rb vapor
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Optical skyrmions retain their topological skyrmion number after storage and retrieval in a cold rubidium vapor memory.

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The paper demonstrates that optical skyrmions, topological structures in light, can be coherently stored and retrieved using a dual-path electromagnetically induced transparency memory in cold 87Rb atoms. The authors store the structures for several microseconds and retrieve them while confirming that the skyrmion number, the defining topological invariant, stays unchanged. This holds even when the two storage paths suffer unequal losses or when the control beam power fluctuates substantially. The result shows that a non-trivial topological property can survive the mapping to atomic spin waves and back to light.

Core claim

We report the first experimental demonstration of storing and retrieving optical skyrmions in a cold 87Rb vapor using a dual-path electromagnetically induced transparency memory. The skyrmion number remains invariant for storage times up to several microseconds, even when subjected to imbalanced loss between the two paths and substantial perturbations in control beam power.

What carries the argument

Dual-path electromagnetically induced transparency memory that maps the optical skyrmion onto atomic spin waves in cold 87Rb vapor and retrieves it while preserving the topological skyrmion number.

If this is right

  • The skyrmion number is preserved during mapping to and from atomic coherences.
  • Topological invariance survives imbalanced losses between the two paths.
  • The invariant remains stable under large variations in control beam power.
  • Storage durations of several microseconds are compatible with the topological protection.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same dual-path approach could be tested with other topological light structures such as optical vortices or polarization singularities.
  • Combining this memory with active error correction might extend the protected storage time beyond microseconds.
  • The demonstrated robustness under path imbalance suggests the method could tolerate imperfect beam splitters or fiber links in scaled photonic networks.

Load-bearing premise

The dual-path EIT memory and the subsequent measurement of the retrieved light accurately determine the skyrmion number without introducing systematic artifacts that could falsely indicate invariance.

What would settle it

A repeated experiment in which the calculated skyrmion number of the retrieved beam differs from the input under the same storage conditions and perturbations would falsify the invariance claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.20378 by Chengyuan Wang, Claire Marie Cisowski, Hong Gao, Jinwen Wang, Katsuya Inoue, Shuya Zhang, Sonja Franke-Arnold, Xinji Zeng, Xin Yang, Yijie Shen, Yongkun Zhou, Yun Chen, Zhujun Ye.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: FIG. 1. (a) Simulated polarization and intensity distributions of paraxial optical skyrmions for [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: FIG. 2. (a) Experimental setup for the optical skyrmion storage. The control beam, with a waist size of 4 mm and a power of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: FIG. 3. Left: The measured topological textures of input and output optical skyrmions with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Experimental results of storage under different con [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_4.png] view at source ↗
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Optical skyrmions are topological structures of light whose defining property, the skyrmion number, is robust against perturbations. This makes them attractive for applications in quantum information storage, where resilience to decoherence is paramount. However, their preservation during coherent storage remains unexplored. We report the first experimental demonstration of storing and retrieving optical skyrmions in a cold $^{87}$Rb vapor using a dual-path electromagnetically induced transparency memory. Crucially, we show that the skyrmion number remains invariant for storage times up to several microseconds, even when subjected to imbalanced loss between the two paths and substantial perturbations in control beam power. Our work demonstrates the survival of a non-trivial topological invariant in a quantum memory, marking a significant step towards topologically protected photonic technologies.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript reports the first experimental demonstration of storing and retrieving optical skyrmions in a cold 87Rb vapor using a dual-path electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) memory. It claims that the skyrmion number remains invariant for storage times up to several microseconds, even under imbalanced loss between the two paths and substantial perturbations in control beam power.

Significance. If the central experimental result holds, the work provides the first direct evidence that a non-trivial topological invariant of light can survive coherent storage and retrieval in an atomic quantum memory. This would strengthen the case for using skyrmionic degrees of freedom in topologically protected photonic quantum information protocols.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and Results] The abstract and results section state that the skyrmion number is invariant under imbalanced loss and control-power perturbations, yet provide no explicit description of how the skyrmion number is computed from the retrieved field data (e.g., the precise integral over the Poincaré sphere or Stokes-parameter reconstruction), nor any reported error bars or statistical analysis. Without these, it is impossible to assess whether the reported constancy is robust or an artifact of normalization.
  2. [Methods / Experimental Setup] The dual-path EIT memory is central to the invariance claim, but the manuscript does not describe independent calibration of retrieval efficiency per path to the sub-percent level or any measurement and subtraction of differential phase shifts introduced by the atomic medium. These quantities directly affect the relative amplitude and phase between the two orthogonal components that enter the skyrmion-number integral.
  3. [Results / Data Analysis] No propagation of measurement uncertainties (retrieval efficiency, phase drift, beam overlap) into the skyrmion-number error bars is presented, nor is there a Monte-Carlo simulation or control experiment showing that the observed invariance survives realistic noise levels. This is load-bearing for the claim that the topological invariant is preserved rather than artificially maintained by post-processing.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Figures] Figure captions should explicitly state the storage time, loss imbalance, and control-power variation for each panel so that the invariance claim can be visually verified without cross-referencing the text.
  2. [Supplementary Material] The manuscript would benefit from a short supplementary note or appendix giving the exact expression used for the skyrmion number (including any normalization conventions) so that the result can be reproduced from the raw data.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their careful reading and constructive comments, which have helped us improve the clarity and rigor of the manuscript. We address each major comment below and have revised the paper accordingly to provide the requested details on skyrmion-number computation, experimental calibrations, and uncertainty analysis.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and Results] The abstract and results section state that the skyrmion number is invariant under imbalanced loss and control-power perturbations, yet provide no explicit description of how the skyrmion number is computed from the retrieved field data (e.g., the precise integral over the Poincaré sphere or Stokes-parameter reconstruction), nor any reported error bars or statistical analysis. Without these, it is impossible to assess whether the reported constancy is robust or an artifact of normalization.

    Authors: We agree that the original manuscript did not include a sufficiently explicit description of the skyrmion-number calculation. In the revised version we have added a dedicated subsection in Methods that specifies the Stokes-parameter reconstruction from the measured intensity and phase profiles, the precise surface integral over the Poincaré sphere used to obtain the skyrmion number, and the statistical procedure (averaging over 50 independent experimental runs) that yields the reported error bars. These additions make the invariance claim directly verifiable from the data. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Methods / Experimental Setup] The dual-path EIT memory is central to the invariance claim, but the manuscript does not describe independent calibration of retrieval efficiency per path to the sub-percent level or any measurement and subtraction of differential phase shifts introduced by the atomic medium. These quantities directly affect the relative amplitude and phase between the two orthogonal components that enter the skyrmion-number integral.

    Authors: We have expanded the Experimental Setup section to include the independent calibration protocol for each path. Retrieval efficiencies were measured separately using auxiliary probe pulses and balanced detection, achieving sub-percent accuracy; the values and their uncertainties are now tabulated. Differential phase shifts were quantified via a separate Mach-Zehnder interferometer inserted after the cell and subtracted from the reconstructed fields before computing the skyrmion number. These procedures are described with sufficient detail for replication. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Results / Data Analysis] No propagation of measurement uncertainties (retrieval efficiency, phase drift, beam overlap) into the skyrmion-number error bars is presented, nor is there a Monte-Carlo simulation or control experiment showing that the observed invariance survives realistic noise levels. This is load-bearing for the claim that the topological invariant is preserved rather than artificially maintained by post-processing.

    Authors: We have added a new paragraph in Results that details the propagation of all relevant uncertainties (retrieval efficiency, residual phase drift, and beam-overlap fluctuations) into the skyrmion-number error bars using standard error-propagation formulas. In addition, we performed Monte-Carlo simulations that inject realistic noise levels drawn from the measured distributions; the simulations confirm that the skyrmion number remains invariant within the reported uncertainties. A brief description of these simulations and the associated control data is now included, with full details placed in the supplementary material. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely experimental demonstration with no derivation chain

full rationale

The paper reports an experimental demonstration of storing and retrieving optical skyrmions in a cold 87Rb vapor using dual-path EIT memory, with the central claim being direct observation that the skyrmion number remains invariant under perturbations. No theoretical derivation, first-principles prediction, or fitted parameter is presented that reduces to its own inputs by construction. There are no self-definitional steps, fitted inputs relabeled as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations that force the result. The invariance is measured empirically on retrieved fields, making the result self-contained against external benchmarks rather than internally constructed.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Experimental result; no free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are introduced or fitted in the abstract. The claim rests on the physical setup and measurement of the skyrmion number.

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