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We report on the experimental characterization of various types of spin-exchange interactions between two individual atoms, where pseudo-spin degrees of freedom are encoded in different Rydberg states. For the case of the direct…

We investigate a long-range interaction between $64D_{5/2}$ Rydberg-atom pairs and antiblockade effect employing a two-color excitation scheme. The first color (pulse A) is set to resonantly excite the Rydberg transition and prepare a few…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Suying Bai , Xuedong Tian , Xiaoxuan Han , Yuechun Jiao , Jinhui Wu , Jianming Zhao , Suotang Jia

We present and analyze a simple model to illustrate the possibility of Rydberg state control by means of a moving guided electron. Specifically, we consider alkali metal atoms whose valence electron is initially prepared in a Rydberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 T. Laycock , B. Olmos , T. W. A. Montgomery , W. Li , T. M. Fromhold , I. Lesanovsky

We investigate the dynamics of Rydberg electrons excited from the ground state of ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice. We first consider a lattice comprising an array of double-well potentials, where each double well is occupied…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Vaucher , S. J. Thwaite , D. Jaksch

We analyze in detail the possibility to use charge-dipole interaction between a single polar molecule or a 1D molecular array and a single Rydberg atom to read out rotational populations. The change in the Rydberg electron energy is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Elena Kuznetsova , Seth T. Rittenhouse , H. R. Sadeghpour , Susanne F. Yelin

Rydberg atoms are used in a wide range of applications due to their peculiar properties like strong dipolar and van der Waals interactions. The choice of Rydberg state has a huge impact on the strength and angular dependence of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Karen Wadenpfuhl , C. Stuart Adams

Rydberg atoms provide a wide range of possibilities to tailor interactions in a quantum gas. Here we report on Rydberg excitation of Bose-Einstein condensed 87Rb atoms. The Rydberg fraction was investigated for various excitation times and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-23 Rolf Heidemann , Ulrich Raitzsch , Vera Bendkowsky , Björn Butscher , Robert Löw , Tilman Pfau

Resonant energy transfer (RET), between equal parity 1s65s$^3\mathrm{S}_1$ and 1s66s$^3\mathrm{S}_1$ Rydberg levels in helium has been observed in low-temperature ($\sim80$ mK) collisions with ammonia molecules which undergo inversion…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 J. Zou , R. R. W. Wang , R. González-Férez , H. R. Sadeghpour , S. D. Hogan

We devise a cold-atom approach to realizing a broad range of bi-linear quantum magnets. Our scheme is based on off-resonant single-photon excitation of Rydberg $P$-states (Rydberg-dressing), whose strong interactions are shown to yield…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-10-09 R. M. W. van Bijnen , T. Pohl

We present a combined experimental and theoretical study of the effects of Rydberg interactions on Autler-Townes spectra of ultracold gases of atomic strontium. Realizing two-photon Rydberg excitation via a long-lived triplet state allows…

Cold Rydberg atoms, known for their long lifetimes and strong dipole-dipole interactions that lead to the Rydberg blockade phenomenon, are among the most promising platforms for quantum simulations, quantum computation and quantum networks.…

Rydberg molecule, formed by one or more Rydberg atoms, exhibits remarkable properties, including an exceptionally large spatial extent, rich rovibrational level structures, permanent electric dipole moments, and a pronounced sensitivity to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Jingxu Bai , Yuechun Jiao , Xiao-Qiang Shao , Weibin Li , Jianming Zhao

Neutral atoms become strongly interacting when their electrons are excited to loosely bound Rydberg states. We investigate the strongly correlated quantum phases of matter that emerge in two-dimensional atom arrays where three Rydberg…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-26 Vincent S. Liu , Marcus Bintz , Maxwell Block , Rhine Samajdar , Jack Kemp , Norman Y. Yao

The advent of digital neutral-atom quantum computers relies on the development of fast and robust protocols for high-fidelity quantum operations. In this work, we introduce a novel scheme for entangling gates using four atomic levels per…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Giuliano Giudici , Stefano Veroni , Giacomo Giudice , Hannes Pichler , Johannes Zeiher

Rydberg atoms immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate interact with the quantum gas via electron-atom and ion-atom interaction. To suppress the typically dominant electron-neutral interaction, Rydberg states with principal quantum number up…

Dense atom ensembles with Rydberg excitations display intriguing collective effects mediated by their strong, long-range dipole-dipole interactions. These collective effects, often modeled using Rydberg superatoms, have gained significant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Xiao-Qiang Shao , Shi-Lei Su , Lin Li , Rejish Nath , Jin-Hui Wu , Weibin Li

We present a method to design a finite decay rate for excited rotational states in polar molecules. The setup is based on a hybrid system of polar molecules with atoms driven into a Rydberg state. The atoms and molecules are coupled via the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-05-15 Sebastian D. Huber , Hans Peter Büchler

By investigating the quantum properties of magnetically trapped nS Rydberg atoms, it is demonstrated that the composite nature of Rydberg atoms significantly alters their trapping properties opposed to point-like particles with the same…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-04-22 M. Mayle , I. Lesanovsky , P. Schmelcher

The internal electric field of a Rydberg atom electron can bind a polar molecule to form a giant ultralong-range stable polyatomic molecule. Such molecules not only share their properties with Rydberg atoms, they possess huge permanent…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Seth T. Rittenhouse , M. Mayle , P. Schmelcher , H. R. Sadeghpour

The interaction between atoms and a quantized radiation field is fundamentally important in quantum optics and quantum information science. Due to their unusual properties, Rydberg atoms are promising building blocks for two-qubit gates and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Francisco D. Santillan , Andreas Hanke