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 simulation of transverse Ising models with Rydberg atoms

P Schauss - Quantum Science and Technology, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum Ising models are canonical models for the study of quantum phase transitions
(Sachdev 1999 Quantum Phase Transitions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)) and …

[HTML][HTML] ARC: An open-source library for calculating properties of alkali Rydberg atoms

N Šibalić, JD Pritchard, CS Adams… - Computer Physics …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present an object-oriented Python library for the computation of properties of highly-
excited Rydberg states of alkali atoms. These include single-body effects such as dipole …

Dipole blockade in a cold Rydberg atomic sample

D Comparat, P Pillet - JOSA B, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We review here the studies performed about interactions in an assembly of cold Rydberg
atoms. We focus especially on the review of the dipole–dipole interactions and on the effect …

Direct measurement of the van der Waals interaction between two Rydberg atoms

L Beguin, A Vernier, R Chicireanu, T Lahaye… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We report the direct measurement of the van der Waals interaction between two isolated,
single Rydberg atoms separated by a controlled distance of a few micrometers. Working in a …

Dynamical crystallization in the dipole blockade of ultracold atoms

T Pohl, E Demler, MD Lukin - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
We describe a method for controlling many-body states in extended ensembles of Rydberg
atoms, forming crystalline structures during laser excitation of a frozen atomic gas …

Signatures of self-organized criticality in an ultracold atomic gas

S Helmrich, A Arias, G Lochead, TM Wintermantel… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Self-organized criticality is an elegant explanation of how complex structures emerge and
persist throughout nature, and why such structures often exhibit similar scale-invariant …

Quantum critical behavior in strongly interacting Rydberg gases

H Weimer, R Löw, T Pfau, HP Büchler - Physical Review Letters, 2008 - APS
We study the appearance of correlated many-body phenomena in an ensemble of atoms
driven resonantly into a strongly interacting Rydberg state. The ground state of the …

Evidence of antiblockade in an ultracold Rydberg gas

T Amthor, C Giese, CS Hofmann, M Weidemüller - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
We present the experimental observation of the antiblockade in an ultracold Rydberg gas
recently proposed by Ates et al.[Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 023002 (2007) PRLTAO 0031-9007 …

Bistability versus metastability in driven dissipative Rydberg gases

F Letscher, O Thomas, T Niederprüm, M Fleischhauer… - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
We investigate the possibility of a bistable phase in an open many-body system. To this end,
we discuss the microscopic dynamics of a continuously off-resonantly driven Rydberg lattice …