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Quantum information processing with neutral atoms relies on Rydberg excitation for entanglement generation. While the use of heavy divalent or open-shell elements, such as strontium or ytterbium, has benefits due to their optically active…

We propose several schemes for implementing a fast two-qubit quantum gate for neutral atoms with the gate operation time much faster than the time scales associated with the external motion of the atoms in the trapping potential. In our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 D. Jaksch , J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller , S. L. Rolston , R. Cote , M. D. Lukin

Rydberg atomic receivers represent a transformative approach to achieving high-sensitivity, broadband, and miniaturized radio frequency (RF) reception. However, existing static signal models for Rydberg atomic receivers rely on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Jieao Zhu , Linglong Dai

Rydberg atoms provide a highly promising platform for quantum computation, leveraging their strong tunable interactions to encode and manipulate information in the electronic states of individual atoms. Key advantages of Rydberg atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Gabriel Almeida , Raul Santos , Lara Janiurek , Yasser Omar

When atoms are excited to high-lying Rydberg states they interact strongly with dipolar forces. The resulting state-dependent level shifts allow to study many-body systems displaying intriguing nonequilibrium phenomena, such as constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Chris Nill , Kay Brandner , Beatriz Olmos , Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky

Atoms in highly excited Rydberg states exhibit remarkable properties and constitute a powerful tool for studying quantum phenomena in strongly interacting many-particle systems. We investigate alkali atoms that are held in a ring lattice…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Beatriz Olmos , Igor Lesanovsky

We study the excitation of Rydberg states in warm rubidium vapor. Using an inverted wavelength excitation scheme, we observe the effect of microwave coupling between Rydberg states through electromagnetically induced transparency. We…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-08-11 E. Brekke , C. Umland

In this paperwe propose two theoretical schemes for implementation of quantum phase gates by engineering the phase-sensitive dark state of two atoms subjected to Rydberg-Rydberg interaction. Combining the conventional adiabatic techniques…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-15 Huaizhi Wu , Xi-Rong Huang , Chang-Sheng Hu , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

We show that nuclear motion of Rydberg atoms can be induced by resonant dipole-dipole interactions that trigger the energy transfer between two energetically close Rydberg states. How and if the atoms move depends on their initial…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Ates , A. Eisfeld , J. M. Rost

Highly excited Rydberg states and their interactions play an important role in quantum computing and simulation. These properties can be predicted accurately for alkali atoms with simple Rydberg level structures. However, an extension of…

We present an efficient method for producing $N$ particle entangled states using Rydberg blockade interactions. Optical excitation of Rydberg states that interact weakly, yet have a strong coupling to a second control state is used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-01 M. Saffman , K. Molmer

If the interaction between qubits in a quantum computer has a non-diagonal form (e.g. the Heisenberg interaction), then one must be able to "switch it off" in order to prevent uncontrolled propagation of states. Therefore, such QC schemes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Simon C. Benjamin

The excitation dynamics of a laser-driven Rydberg gas exhibits a cooperative effect due to the interatomic Rydberg-Rydberg interaction, but the large many-body system with inhomogeneous Rydberg coupling is hard to exactly solved or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Huaizhi Wu , Yong Li , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

The ability to realize high-fidelity quantum communication is one of the many facets required to build generic quantum computing devices. In addition to quantum processing, sensing, and storage, transferring the resulting quantum states…

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

Scalable quantum computers and quantum networks require the combination of quantum processing nodes with efficient light-matter interfaces to distribute quantum information in local or long-distance quantum networks. Neutral-atom arrays…

Using a shared microwave resonator, we propose a transduction scheme between superconducting qubits and qubit states encoded in the low-lying internal levels of trapped atomic systems. The approach employs atomic Rydberg levels together…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Fernando L. Semião , Matthias Keller

Preparation of entangled steady states via dissipation and pumping in Rydberg atoms has been recently found to be useful for quantum information processing. The driven-dissipative dynamics is closely related to the natural linewidth of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Zong-Xing Ding , Chang-Sheng Hu , Li-Tuo Shen , Zhen-Biao Yang , Huaizhi Wu , Shi-Biao Zheng

In the last twenty years, Rydberg atoms have become a versatile and much studied system for implementing quantum many-body systems in the framework of quantum computation and quantum simulation. However, even in the absence of coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-12 O. Morsch , I. Lesanovsky

We discuss techniques to generate long-range interactions in a gas of groundstate alkali atoms, by weakly admixing excited Rydberg states with laser light. This provides a tool to engineer strongly correlated phases with reduced decoherence…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Pupillo , A. Micheli , M. Boninsegni , I. Lesanovsky , P. Zoller