Abstract
We demonstrate the preparation of heralded Fock-basis qubits from transient collective spin excitations in a hot atomic vapor. The preparation event is heralded by Raman-scattered photons in a four-wave mixing process seeded by a weak coherent optical excitation. The amplitude and phase of the seed field allow arbitrary control over the qubit coefficients. The qubit state is characterized using balanced homodyne tomography.
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