Light storage in a magnetically dressed optical lattice

Differential Stark shift compensation for ground-state Rb-87 atoms trapped in an elliptically polarized optical lattice and magic magnetic field was recently proposed and demonstrated experimentally by N. Lundblad et al. [e-print arXiv:0912.1528] and analyzed theoretically by A. Derevianko [e-print arXiv:0912.3233]. Here we demonstrate enhanced hyperfine coherence times using the magic field technique. We observe coherent light storage with a 0.32-s lifetime in an atomic Rb gas confined in a one-dimensional optical lattice and magnetic field.