Cold hybrid ion-atom systems

M Tomza, K Jachymski, R Gerritsma, A Negretti… - Reviews of modern …, 2019 - APS
Hybrid systems of laser-cooled trapped ions and ultracold atoms combined in a single
experimental setup have recently emerged as a new platform for fundamental research in …

Ultracold rydberg molecules

JP Shaffer, ST Rittenhouse, HR Sadeghpour - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Ultracold molecules formed from association of a single Rydberg atom with surrounding
atoms or molecules and those from double Rydberg excitations are discussed in this review …

Observation of attractive and repulsive polarons in a Bose-Einstein condensate

NB Jørgensen, L Wacker, KT Skalmstang, MM Parish… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
The problem of an impurity particle moving through a bosonic medium plays a fundamental
role in physics. However, the canonical scenario of a mobile impurity immersed in a Bose …

Giant Rydberg excitons in the copper oxide Cu2O

T Kazimierczuk, D Fröhlich, S Scheel, H Stolz, M Bayer - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
A highly excited atom having an electron that has moved into a level with large principal
quantum number is a hydrogen-like object, termed a Rydberg atom. The giant size of …

Mechanisms of antiwear tribofilm growth revealed in situ by single-asperity sliding contacts

NN Gosvami, JA Bares, F Mangolini, AR Konicek… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Zinc dialkyldithiophosphates (ZDDPs) form antiwear tribofilms at sliding interfaces and are
widely used as additives in automotive lubricants. The mechanisms governing the tribofilm …

Single-photon transistor mediated by interstate Rydberg interactions

H Gorniaczyk, C Tresp, J Schmidt, H Fedder… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We report on the realization of an all-optical transistor by map** gate and source photons
into strongly interacting Rydberg excitations with different principal quantum numbers in an …

Calculation of Rydberg interaction potentials

S Weber, C Tresp, H Menke, A Urvoy… - Journal of Physics B …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The strong interaction between individual Rydberg atoms provides a powerful tool exploited
in an ever-growing range of applications in quantum information science, quantum …

Single-photon switch based on Rydberg blockade

S Baur, D Tiarks, G Rempe, S Dürr - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
All-optical switching is a technique in which a gate light pulse changes the transmission of a
target light pulse without the detour via electronic signal processing. We take this to the …

Quantum dynamics of ultracold Bose polarons

YE Shchadilova, R Schmidt, F Grusdt, E Demler - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
We analyze the dynamics of Bose polarons in the vicinity of a Feshbach resonance between
the impurity and host atoms. We compute the radio-frequency absorption spectra for the …

Observation of fermion-mediated interactions between bosonic atoms

BJ DeSalvo, K Patel, G Cai, C Chin - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
In high-energy and condensed-matter physics, particle exchange has an essential role in
the understanding of long-range interactions and correlations. For example, the exchange of …