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We present a method for performing low frequency electric field sensing via ionization detection of Rydberg atoms in a collimated atomic beam. A collimated beam avoids much of the electric field screening effects that are common in warm…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Jeremy Glick , John R Dickson , Josie Wood , Paul Kunz

Dipole-dipole interactions between helium atoms in Rydberg-Stark states with principal quantum number $n=53$ and approximately linear Stark energy shifts, resulting from induced electric dipole moments of approximately 7900 D, have been…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 V. Zhelyazkova , S. D. Hogan

We demonstrate a continuous frequency electric field measurement based on the far off-resonant AC stark effect in a Rydberg atomic vapor cell. In this configuration, a strong far off-resonant field, denoted as a local oscillator (LO) field,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-01-16 Jinlian Hu , Huaqiang Li , Rong Song , Jingxu Bai , Yuechun Jiao , Jianming Zhao , Suotang Jia

The electric field in mm-sized clouds of cold Rb^+-ions is measured using the Stark effect of Rydberg atoms embedded in the ion clouds. The ion clouds are produced by UV photoionization of laser-cooled rubidium atoms in a magneto-optic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. K. Dutta , D. Feldbaum , G. Raithel

Atoms excited to electronically high-lying Rydberg states decay to low-energy states through spontaneous emission processes. We investigate the impact of a static electric field on the superradiant emission process between Rydberg…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-11-18 Yunhui He , Jingxu Bai , Yuechun Jiao , Weibin Li , Jianming zhao

We investigate the electronic structure and properties of Rydberg atoms exposed to a magnetic quadrupole field. It is shown that the spatial as well as generalized time reversal symmetries lead to a two-fold degeneracy of the electronic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Lesanovsky , J. Schmiedmayer , P. Schmelcher

Rydberg atoms have shown significant promise as the basis for highly sensitive detectors of continuous radio-frequency (RF) E-fields. Here, we study their time-dependent response to pulse-modulated RF E-fields at 19.4 GHz using a cesium…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Stephanie M. Bohaichuk , Donald Booth , Kent Nickerson , Harry Tai , James P. Shaffer

Measurements of plasma electric fields are essential to the advancement of plasma science and applications. Methods for non-invasive in situ measurements of plasma fields on sub-millimeter length scales with high sensitivity over a large…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 David A. Anderson , Georg Raithel , Matthew Simons , Christopher L. Holloway

We study a driven-dissipative system of atoms in the presence of laser excitation to a Rydberg state and spontaneous emission. The atoms interact via the blockade effect, whereby an atom in the Rydberg state shifts the Rydberg level of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-09-14 Tony E. Lee , H. Häffner , M. C. Cross

The ac Stark effect was used to induce resonant energy transfer between translationally cold Rydberg atoms. The Rb Rydberg atoms were obtained by laser excitation of cold atoms from a magneto-optical trap. Using two-photon microwave…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 P. Bohlouli-Zanjani , J. A. Petrus , J. D. D. Martin

We present a method to control collisions between ultracold neutral atoms in the electronic ground state and trapped ions. During the collision, the neutral atom is resonantly excited by a laser to a low-field-seeking Rydberg state, which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-24 Limei Wang , Markus Deiß , Georg Raithel , Johannes Hecker Denschlag

Rydberg atoms are in the focus of intense research due to the peculiar properties which make them interesting candidates for quantum optics and quantum information applications. In this work we study the ionization of Rydberg atoms due to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 K. L. Romans , A. H. N. C. De Silva , B. P. Acharya , K. Foster , O. Russ , D. Fischer

Rydberg atoms have great potential in electric field measurement and have an advantage with a large frequency bandwidth from the kHz to the THz scale. However, the sensitivity for measuring a weak MHz electric field signal is limited by the…

Recently, the rapid progress of quantum sensing research reveals that the Rydberg atoms have great potentials in becoming high-precision centimeter-scale antenna of low-frequency fields. In order to facilitate efficient and reliable…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Shenchao Jin , Xiayang Fan , Xin Wang , Yi Song , Yuan Sun

The electron signals from the field ionization of two closely-spaced Rydberg states of \mbox{rubidium-85} are separated using quantum control. In selective field ionization, the state distribution of a collection of Rydberg atoms is…

Experimental and theoretical studies of the effects of weak radio-frequency electric fields on Rydberg-Stark states with electric dipole moments as large as 10000 D are reported. High-resolution laser spectroscopic studies of Rydberg states…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-29 V. Zhelyazkova , S. D. Hogan

Rydberg atoms have been used for measuring radio-frequency (RF) electric (E)-fields due to their strong dipole moments over the frequency range of 500 MHz-1 THz. For this, electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) within the…

Among the thriving quantum computation and quantum simulation platforms based on arrays of Rydberg atoms, those using circular Rydberg atoms are particularly promising. These atoms uniquely combine the strong dipole-dipole interactions…

We show that combination of a linearly polarized resonant microwave field and a parallel static electric field may be used to create a non-dispersive electronic wavepacket in Rydberg atoms. The static electric field allows for manipulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominique Delande , Krzysztof Sacha , Jakub Zakrzewski

We demonstrate the imaging of localized surface electric (E) field effects on the atomic spectrum in a vapor cell used in Rydberg atom-based sensors. These surface E-fields can result from an induced electric charge distribution on the…