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Matter-wave interferometry has been performed with helium atoms in high Rydberg states. In the experiments the atoms were prepared in coherent superpositions of Rydberg states with different electric dipole moments. Upon the application of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 J. E. Palmer , S. D. Hogan

The dynamics of Rydberg states of atomic hydrogen perturbed simultaneously by a static electric field and a resonant microwave field of elliptical polarization is analysed in the quantum perturbative limit of small amplitudes. For some…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Krzysztof Sacha , Jakub Zakrzewski , Dominique Delande

Quantum reflection is a pure wave phenomena that predicts reflection of a particle at a changing potential for cases where complete transmission occurs classically. For a chemical bond, we find that this effect can lead to non-classical…

The complex Rydberg structure of ytterbium atoms is shaped by multiple low-lying ion-core-excited states and strong channel interactions, which presents both opportunities and challenges for quantum information processing and precision…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Rin Kuroda , Vernon M. Hughes , Martin Poitrinal , Michael Peper , Jeff D. Thompson

Rydberg atom arrays are powerful platforms for studying quantum many-body systems. We consider the Rydberg-Ising Hamiltonian on periodic chains and numerically study ensembles of states generated by random global pulse sequences subject to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Edison S. Carrera , Grégoire Misguich

We describe the emergence of strong spatial correlations, akin to liquid-like behavior and crystallization effects, in low (one and two) dimensional gases of cold Rydberg atoms. The presence of an external electric field permanently…

We develop a self-consistent approach that provides an explicit potential for a Rydberg electron whose ionic core consists of a polarizable medium, typically realized with superfluid droplets. The electron's motion remains separable in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Juan Carlos Acosta Matos , P. Giannakeas , Jan M. Rost

Rydberg atoms provide a powerful platform for exploring strongly interacting quantum systems, both in free space and in structured electromagnetic environments, with growing applications in quantum technology. Accurately modeling their…

We investigate a hybrid electro-mechanical system consisting of a pair of charged macroscopic mechanical oscillators coupled to a small ensemble of Rydberg atoms. The resonant dipole-dipole coupling between an internal atomic Rydberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 F. Bariani , J. Otterbach , Huatang Tan , P. Meystre

Using a collective coordinate numerical optimization procedure, we construct ground-state configurations of interacting particle systems in various space dimensions so that the scattering of radiation exactly matches a prescribed pattern…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert D. Batten , Frank H. Stillinger , Salvatore Torquato

Rydberg states of atoms are of great current interest for quantum manipulation of mesoscopic samples of atoms. Long-range Rydberg-Rydberg interactions can inhibit multiple excitations of atoms under the appropriate conditions. These…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thad G. Walker , Mark Saffman

We demonstrate that through localised Rydberg excitation in a three-dimensional cold atom cloud atomic motion can be rendered directed and nearly confined to a plane, without spatial constraints for the motion of individual atoms. This…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 K. Leonhardt , S. Wüster , J. M. Rost

A Rydberg molecule is composed of an outer electron that collides on the residual ionic core. Typical states of Rydberg molecules display entanglement between the outer electron and the core. In this work we quantify the average…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M Lombardi , A Matzkin

Higgs and Goldstone modes manifest as fluctuations in the order parameter of system, offering insights into its phase transitions and symmetry properties. Exploring the dynamics of these collective excitations in a Rydberg atoms system…

Rydberg excitons, the solid-state counterparts of Rydberg atoms, have sparked considerable interest in harnessing their quantum application potentials, whereas a major challenge is realizing their spatial confinement and manipulation.…

We consider two clouds of ground state alkali atoms in two distinct hyperfine ground states. Each level is far off-resonantly coupled to a Rydberg state, which leads to dressed ground states with a weak admixture of the Rydberg state…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-04-30 M. Genkin , S. Wüster , S. Möbius , A. Eisfeld , J. M. Rost

We report on the formation of ultralong-range Rydberg D-state molecules via photoassociation in an ultracold cloud of rubidium atoms. By applying a magnetic offset field on the order of 10 G and high resolution spectroscopy, we are able to…

The exceptionally large polarisability of highly excited Rydberg atoms (six orders of magnitude higher than ground-state atoms) makes them of great interest in fields such as quantum optics, quantum computing, quantum simulation and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 G. Epple , K. S. Kleinbach , T. G. Euser , N. Y. Joly , T. Pfau , P. St. J. Russell , R. Löw

Out-of-equilibrium, strong correlation in a many-body system triggers emergent properties that can act in important ways to constrain the natural dissipation of energy and matter. Networks of atoms, intricately engineered to arrange…

Quantum simulation of many-body quantum systems using Rydberg-atom platforms has become of extreme interest in the last years. The possibility to realize spin Hamiltonians and the accurate control at the single atom level paved the way for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Francesco Perciavalle , Davide Rossini , Juan Polo , Oliver Morsch , Luigi Amico