Quantum information with Rydberg atoms

M Saffman, TG Walker, K Mølmer - Reviews of modern physics, 2010 - APS
Rydberg atoms with principal quantum number n⪢ 1 have exaggerated atomic properties
including dipole-dipole interactions that scale as n 4 and radiative lifetimes that scale as n 3 …

Quantum nonlinear optics—photon by photon

DE Chang, V Vuletić, MD Lukin - Nature Photonics, 2014 - nature.com
The realization of strong interactions between individual photons is a long-standing goal of
both fundamental and technological significance. Scientists have known for over half a …

Rydberg atom quantum technologies

CS Adams, JD Pritchard… - Journal of Physics B …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This topical review addresses how Rydberg atoms can serve as building blocks for
emerging quantum technologies. Whereas the fabrication of large numbers of artificial …

A concise review of Rydberg atom based quantum computation and quantum simulation

X Wu, X Liang, Y Tian, F Yang, C Chen, YC Liu… - Chinese …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum information processing based on Rydberg atoms emerged as a promising
direction two decades ago. Recent experimental and theoretical progresses have shined …

Colloquium: Strongly interacting photons in one-dimensional continuum

D Roy, CM Wilson, O Firstenberg - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Photon-photon scattering in vacuum is extremely weak. However, strong effective
interactions between single photons can be realized by employing strong light-matter …

Quantum simulations and many-body physics with light

C Noh, DG Angelakis - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review we discuss the works in the area of quantum simulation and many-body
physics with light, from the early proposals on equilibrium models to the more recent works …

Coherent Optical Detection of Highly Excited Rydberg States<? format?> Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

AK Mohapatra, TR Jackson, CS Adams - Physical review letters, 2007 - APS
We demonstrate coherent optical detection of highly excited Rydberg states (up to n= 124)
using electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), providing a direct nondestructive …

Cooperative atom-light interaction in a blockaded Rydberg ensemble

JD Pritchard, D Maxwell, A Gauguet, KJ Weatherill… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
By coupling a probe transition to a Rydberg state using electromagnetically induced
transparency (EIT) we map the strong dipole-dipole interactions onto an optical field. We …

A photon–photon quantum gate based on Rydberg interactions

D Tiarks, S Schmidt-Eberle, T Stolz, G Rempe, S Dürr - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
The interaction between Rydberg states of neutral atoms is strong and long-range, making it
appealing to put it to use in the context of quantum technologies. Recently, first applications …

Fast multiqubit gates by adiabatic evolution in interacting excited-state manifolds of Rydberg atoms and superconducting circuits

M Khazali, K Mølmer - Physical Review X, 2020 - APS
Quantum computing and quantum simulation can be implemented by concatenation of one-
and two-qubit gates and interactions. For most physical implementations, however, it may be …