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The ability to cool atoms below the Doppler limit -- the minimum temperature reachable by Doppler cooling -- has been essential to most experiments with quantum degenerate gases, optical lattices and atomic fountains, among many other…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 S. Truppe , H. J. Williams , M. Hambach , L. Caldwell , N. J. Fitch , E. A. Hinds , B. E. Sauer , M. R. Tarbutt

This paper reviews the recent results in high-resolution spectroscopy on cold molecules. Laser spectroscopy of cold molecules addresses issues of symmetry violation, like in the search for the electric dipole moment of the electron and the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-07-05 Simone Borri , Gabriele Santambrogio

A Rydberg and a ground-state atom can form ultralong range diatomic molecules provided the interaction between the ground-state atom and the Rydberg electron is attractive [C. H. Greene, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2458 (2000)]. A…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2008-07-15 Ivan C. H. Liu , Jovica Stanojevic , Jan M. Rost

For low-density plasmas, the classical limit described by the Debye-H\"uckel theory is still considered as an appropriate description even though a clear experimental proof of this paradigm is lacking due to the problems in determining the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Heinrich Stolz , Dirk Semkat , Rico Schwartz , Julian Heckötter , Marc Aßmann , Wolf-Dietrich Kraeft , Holger Fehske , Manfred Bayer

We consider ultralong-range polyatomic Rydberg molecules formed by combining a Rydberg cesium atom and a ground-state RbCs molecule. We explore the regime where the charge-dipole interaction due to the Rydberg electron with the diatomic…

We have studied the behavior of cold Rydberg atoms embedded in an ultracold plasma. We demonstrate that even deeply bound Rydberg atoms are completely ionized in such an environment, due to electron collisions. Using a fast pulse extraction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Nicolas Vanhaecke , Daniel Comparat , Duncan A. Tate , Pierre Pillet

In recent years, micromachined vapor cells have been revolutionizing the field of chip-scale quantum sensors such as magnetometers and atomic clocks. In parallel, Rydberg atomic quantum sensing has emerged as a powerful technique for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Avital Giat , Kfir Levi , Ori Nefesh , Liron Stern

We review recent developments in the use of magnetic lattices as a complementary tool to optical lattices for trapping periodic arrays of ultracold atoms and degenerate quantum gases. Recent advances include the realisation of Bose-Einstein…

We introduce four new molecules -- YbRb, YbCs, YbSr$^+$, and YbBa$^+$ -- that may prove fruitful in experimental searches for the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the electron. These molecules can, in principle, be prepared at extremely low…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Edmund R. Meyer , John L. Bohn

We investigate the impact of combined electric and magnetic fields on the structure of ultralong-range polar Rydberg molecules. Our focus is hereby on the parallel as well as the crossed field configuration taking into account both the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-09-11 Markus Kurz , Peter Schmelcher

We review Rydberg aggregates, assemblies of a few Rydberg atoms exhibiting energy transport through collective eigenstates, considering isolated atoms or assemblies embedded within clouds of cold ground-state atoms. We classify Rydberg…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 S. Wüster , J. -M. Rost

We discuss and review in this chapter the developing field of research of quantum simulation of gauge theories with ultracold atoms.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 João C. Pinto Barros , Michele Burrello , Andrea Trombettoni

We investigate the spectral properties of a finite laser-driven lattice of ultracold Rydberg atoms exploiting the dipole blockade effect in the frozen Rydberg gas regime. Uniform one-dimensional lattices as well as lattices with variable…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-11-23 Nikolas Tezak , Michael Mayle , Peter Schmelcher

Tweezer arrays of polar molecules present new opportunities for quantum science and quantum information. However, a major challenge, especially in bialkali molecule platforms, is the fact that current measurement schemes for the internal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Jeremy T. Young , Kang-Kuen Ni , Alexey V. Gorshkov

Ultracold polar molecules offer the possibility of exploring quantum gases with interparticle interactions that are strong, long-range, and spatially anisotropic. This is in stark contrast to the dilute gases of ultracold atoms, which have…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 K. -K. Ni , S. Ospelkaus , D. Wang , G. Quemener , B. Neyenhuis , M. H. G. de Miranda , J. L. Bohn , J. Ye , D. S. Jin

We briefly introduce the formalism for describing dipolar molecules in an ultracold gaseous environment. This treatment includes the quantum mechanical states of the dipoles, the electric fields they produce, and their interactions with one…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-01-05 John L. Bohn

Microwave sensing has important applications in areas such as data communication and remote sensing, so it has received much attention from international academia, industry, and governments. Atomic wireless sensing uses the strong response…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-05-29 Bang Liu , Li-Hua Zhang , Zong-Kai Liu , Zi-An Deng , Dong-Sheng Ding , Bao-Sen Shi , Guang-Can Guo

Rydberg atoms with principal quantum number n >> 1 have exaggerated atomic properties including dipole-dipole interactions that scale as n^4 and radiative lifetimes that scale as n^3. It was proposed a decade ago to take advantage of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Saffman , T. G. Walker , K. Molmer

The presence of non-local and long-range interactions in quantum systems induces several peculiar features in their equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium behavior. In current experimental platforms control parameters such as interaction range,…

We investigate polyatomic ultralong-range Rydberg molecules consisting of three ground state atoms bound to a Rydberg atom via $s$- and $p$-wave interactions. By employing the finite basis set representation of the unperturbed Rydberg…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 Christian Fey , Markus Kurz , Peter Schmelcher