Many-body physics with individually controlled Rydberg atoms

A Browaeys, T Lahaye - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Recent decades have witnessed great developments in the field of quantum simulation—
where synthetic systems are built and studied to gain insight into complicated, many-body …

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 and computing with Rydberg-interacting qubits

M Morgado, S Whitlock - AVS Quantum Science, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Arrays of optically trapped atoms excited to Rydberg states have recently emerged as a
competitive physical platform for quantum simulation and computing, where high-fidelity …

Observation of spatially ordered structures in a two-dimensional Rydberg gas

P Schauß, M Cheneau, M Endres, T Fukuhara, S Hild… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The ability to control and tune interactions in ultracold atomic gases has paved the way for
the realization of new phases of matter. So far, experiments have achieved a high degree of …

An experimental and theoretical guide to strongly interacting Rydberg gases

R Löw, H Weimer, J Nipper, JB Balewski… - Journal of Physics B …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We review experimental and theoretical tools to excite, study and understand strongly
interacting Rydberg gases. The focus lies on the excitation of dense ultracold atomic …

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 …

Evidence for coherent collective Rydberg excitation in the strong blockade regime

R Heidemann, U Krohn, V Bendkowsky, B Butscher… - Physical Review Letters, 2007 - APS
We report on strong van der Waals blockade in two-photon Rydberg excitation of ultracold
magnetically trapped Rb 87 atoms. The excitation dynamics was investigated for a large …

Efficiently preparing Schr\" odinger's cat, fractons and non-Abelian topological order in quantum devices

R Verresen, N Tantivasadakarn… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Long-range entangled quantum states--like cat states and topological order--are key for
quantum metrology and information purposes, but they cannot be prepared by any scalable …

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 …

Electromagnetically induced transparency with Rydberg atoms

D Petrosyan, J Otterbach, M Fleischhauer - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We present a theory of electromagnetically induced transparency in a cold ensemble of
strongly interacting Rydberg atoms. Long-range interactions between the atoms constrain …