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A quantum sensing protocol is proposed for demonstrating the motion-induced chirality of circularly polarised Rydberg atoms. To this end, a cloud of Rydberg atoms is dressed by a bichromatic light field. This allows to exploit the…

Rydberg atoms with dipole-dipole interactions provide intriguing platforms to explore exotic quantum many-body physics. Here we propose a novel scheme with laser-assisted dipole-dipole interactions to realize synthetic magnetic field for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Tian-Hua Yang , Bao-Zong Wang , Xin-Chi Zhou , Xiong-Jun Liu

Helium atoms in the 1s50s $^3$S$_1$ Rydberg level have been resonantly coupled to the $2\pi\times11.721$ GHz second harmonic mode of a chip-based superconducting coplanar waveguide microwave resonator. To achieve this, the single-photon…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 L. L. Brown , I. K. Bhangoo , S. D. Hogan

We propose a toy model of ion-atom hybrid quantum system for quantum computing. We show that when two atomic qubits in two largely separated optical tweezers interact with a single trapped ion through Rydberg excitation of the atoms, there…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Subhra Mudli , Subhanka Mal , Sinchan Snigdha Rej , Anushree Dey , Bimalendu Deb

We investigate the interaction between Rydberg atoms, whose electronic states are dressed by multiple microwave fields. Numerical calculations are used for an exact description of the microwave induced interactions, and employed to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-12-17 Sevilay Sevinçli , Thomas Pohl

We propose and analyze a setup to achieve strong coupling between a single trapped atom and a mechanical oscillator. The interaction between the motion of the atom and the mechanical oscillator is mediated by a quantized light field in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Hammerer , M. Wallquist , C. Genes , M. Ludwig , F. Marquardt , P. Treutlein , P. Zoller , J. Ye , H. J. Kimble

This paper is a proposal for the generation of many-body entangled state in atomic and mechanical systems. Application of strong Rydberg dressing interaction and fast bifurcation scheme in an ultra-stable Cs lattice clock in this proposal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Mohammadsadegh Khazali

We study resonant optical excitations of strongly-interacting Rydberg states of atoms in the presence of relaxations. We employ the quantum stochastic (Monte Carlo) wavefunctions to simulate the dissipative dynamics of tens of atoms in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 David Petrosyan

Cold atoms in highly excited Rydberg states are promising candidates to implement quantum logic gates of a quantum computer via long-range dipole-dipole interaction. Two-qubit gates require a controlled interaction of only two close Rydberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-19 I. I. Ryabtsev , D. B. Tretyakov , I. I. Beterov , V. M. Entin

The electronic spectrum of a Rydberg atom immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate is investigated. The Heisenberg equations of motions for the condensate and the Rydberg atom are derived. Neglecting the backaction of the Rydberg atom onto…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-17 Stephan Middelkamp , Igor Lesanovsky , P. Schmelcher

Rydberg alkaline earth atoms are promising tools for quantum simulation and metrology. When one of the two valence electrons is promoted to long-lived circular states, the second valence electron can be optically manipulated without…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 L. Lachaud , B. Muraz , A. Couto , J. -M. Raimond , M. Brune , S. Gleyzes

Rydberg atoms represent a platform underpinning many recent developments in quantum computation, simulation, sensing, and metrology. They further facilitate optical nonlinearity at the single-photon level when coupled to photons propagating…

We investigate a possible mechanism for the autoionization of ultracold Rydberg gases, based on the resonant coupling of Rydberg pair states to the ionization continuum. Unlike an atomic collision where the wave functions begin to overlap,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Amthor , J. Denskat , C. Giese , N. N. Bezuglov , A. Ekers , L. Cederbaum , M. Weidemüller

We study the coherent cooperative phenomena of the system composed of two interacting atomic ensembles in the thermodynamic limit. Remarkably, the system exhibits the Dicke-like quantum phase transition and entanglement behavior although…

Optics · Physics 2012-02-27 Shi-Biao Zheng

Resonant electric dipole-dipole interactions between cold Rydberg atoms were observed using microwave spectroscopy. Laser-cooled Rb atoms in a magneto-optical trap were optically excited to 45d Rydberg states using a pulsed laser. A…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Afrousheh , P. Z. Bohlouli , D. Vagale , A. Mugford , M. Fedorov , J. D. D. Martin

We describe an electrodynamic mechanism for coherent, quantum mechanical coupling between spacially separated quantum dots on a microchip. The technique is based on capacitive interactions between the electron charge and a superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. I. Childress , A. S. Sorensen , M. D. Lukin

Coherent superpositions of the 49s and 48s Rydberg states of cold Rb atoms were studied near the surface of an atom chip. The superpositions were created and manipulated using microwaves resonant with the two-photon 49s-48s transition.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-10-29 J. D. Carter , J. D. D. Martin

Optomechanical systems typically use light to control the quantum state of a mechanical resonator. In this paper, we propose a scheme for controlling the quantum state of light using the mechanical degree of freedom as a controlled beam…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 Sahar Basiri-Esfahani , Casey R Myers , Joshua Combes , G. J. Milburn

Self-sustained oscillators play a central role in the stabilization and synchronization of complex dynamical systems. A number of different physical systems are currently being investigated to clarify the importance of such active…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Cecilie Hermansen , Jens Paaske

Strongly Rydberg-blockaded two-level atoms form a Rydberg superatom, which is excited only to a collective symmetrical Dicke state. However, emerging often in the alkali-earth atoms, the spontaneous decay from the Rydberg state to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Chang Qiao , Wenxian Zhang