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Trapped Rydberg ions represent a flexible platform for quantum simulation and information processing which combines a high degree of control over electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom. The possibility to individually excite ions to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-09-30 Filippo Maria Gambetta , Chi Zhang , Markus Hennrich , Igor Lesanovsky , Weibin Li

We report the observation and control of ultrafast non-equilibrium many-body electron dynamics in Rydberg-excited spatially-ordered ultracold atoms created from a three-dimensional unity-filling atomic Mott insulator. By implementing…

Recent developments in the study of ultracold Rydberg gases demand an advanced level of experimental sophistication, in which high atomic and optical densities must be combined with excellent control of external fields and sensitive Rydberg…

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

We investigate exciton transport through one-dimensional molecular aggregates interacting strongly with a cavity mode. Unlike several prior theoretical studies treating the monomers as simple two-level systems, exciton-vibration coupling is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Jingyu Liu , Qing Zhao , Ning Wu

Recent breakthroughs in the experimental manipulation of strongly interacting atomic Rydberg gases in lattice potentials have opened a new avenue for the study of many-body phenomena. Considerable efforts are currently being undertaken to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-02-17 Ben Everest , Matteo Marcuzzi , Igor Lesanovsky

The dipole blockade of multiple Rydberg excitations in mesoscopic atomic ensembles allows the implementation of various quantum information tasks using collective states of cold, trapped atoms. Precise coherent manipulations of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-29 David Petrosyan , Georgios M. Nikolopoulos

Ultra-cold gases excited to strongly interacting Rydberg states are a promising system for quantum simulations of many-body systems. For off-resonant excitation of such systems in the dissipative regime, highly correlated many-body states…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 N. Malossi , M. M. Valado , S. Scotto , P. Huillery , P. Pillet , D. Ciampini , E. Arimondo , O. Morsch

Trapped Rydberg ions are a promising novel approach to quantum computing and simulations. They are envisaged to combine the exquisite control of trapped ion qubits with the fast two-qubit Rydberg gates already demonstrated in neutral atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Gerard Higgins , Fabian Pokorny , Chi Zhang , Quentin Bodart , Markus Hennrich

The ability to control and tune interactions in ultracold atomic gases has paved the way towards the realization of new phases of matter. Whereas experiments have so far achieved a high degree of control over short-ranged interactions, the…

We study the behavior of a Bose-Einstein condensate in which atoms are weakly coupled to a highly excited Rydberg state. Since the latter have very strong van der Waals interactions, this coupling induces effective, nonlocal interactions…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-05-12 N. Henkel , R. Nath , T. Pohl

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

Due to the intrinsic strong blockaded interaction shifting the energy level of Rydberg state, the steady Rydberg probability may be substantially restrained to a low level, especially for atoms suffering from weak drivings. We report an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Han Wang , Dongmin Yu , Rui Li , Jing Qian

Hosting giant Rydberg excitons with principal quantum numbers up to n = 30, cuprous oxide (Cu2O) provides a rare solid-state setting for exploring Rydberg physics, as exemplified by the blockade effect. Here we access the strongly…

We introduce the Rydberg Composite, a new class of Rydberg matter where a single Rydberg atom is interfaced with a dense environment of neutral ground state atoms. The properties of the Composite depend on both the Rydberg excitation, which…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-09-02 Andrew L. Hunter , Matthew T. Eiles , Alex Eisfeld , Jan M. Rost

Rydberg excitons in two-dimensional semiconductors provide sensitive and non-destructive probes of physics in proximal sample layers that host correlated electronic states. In particular, electron or hole doping of the sample layer is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Arthur Christianen , Anna M. Seiler , Alperen Tüğen , Ataç İmamoğlu

We study the exciton dynamics in an optically excited nanocrystal quantum dot. Multiple exciton formation is more efficient in nanocrystal quantum dots compared to bulk semiconductors due to enhanced Coulomb interactions and the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-02 Fikeraddis A. Damtie , Andreas Wacker

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 theoretically investigate the flow of the atomic excitations in a driven chiral-coupled atomic chain with nonreciprocal decay channels. This one-dimensional system allows infinite-range dipole-dipole interaction, and enables directional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 H. H. Jen

In one-dimensional waveguide quantum electrodynamics systems, quantum emitters interact through infinite-range, dispersive, and dissipative dipole-dipole interactions mediated by guided photonic modes. These interactions give rise to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Wei Chen , Guin-Dar Lin , H. H. Jen