Many-Body Physics with Individually-Controlled Rydberg Atoms
Abstract
Over the last decade, systems of individually-controlled neutral atoms, interacting with each other when excited to Rydberg states, have emerged as a promising platform for quantum simulation of many-body problems, in particular spin systems. Here, we review the techniques underlying quantum gas microscopes and arrays of optical tweezers used in these experiments, explain how the different types of interactions between Rydberg atoms allow a natural mapping onto various quantum spin models, and describe recent results that were obtained with this platform to study quantum many-body physics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2002.07413,
title = {Many-Body Physics with Individually-Controlled Rydberg Atoms},
author = {Antoine Browaeys and Thierry Lahaye},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.07413},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
14 pages, 6 figures, 115 references. Invited review in Nature Physics. This is the manuscript as initially submitted; there are only very minor changes in the published version