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We study relaxation and dephasing in a strongly driven two-level system interacting with its environment. We develop a theory which gives a straightforward physical picture of the complex dynamics of the system in terms of dressed states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-09 C. M. Wilson , G. Johansson , T. Duty , F. Persson , M. Sandberg , P. Delsing

The laser-excitation of Rydberg atoms in ultracold gases is often described assuming that the atomic motion is frozen during the excitation time. We show that this frozen gas approximation can break down for atoms that are held in optical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-23 W. Li , C. Ates , I. Lesanovsky

We present a scheme for engineering quantum transport dynamics of spin excitations in a chain of laser-dressed Rydberg atoms, mediated by synthetic spin-exchange arising from diagonal van der Waals interaction. The dynamic tunability and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Fan Yang , Shuo Yang , Li You

We study the conditions for generating spin squeezing via a quantum non-demolition measurement in an ensemble of cold 87Rb atoms. By considering the interaction of atoms in the 5S_{1/2}(F=1) ground state with probe light tuned near the D2…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. R. de Echaniz , M. W. Mitchell , M. Kubasik , M. Koschorreck , H. Crepaz , J. Eschner , E. S. Polzik

We explore how the extraordinary properties of Rydberg atoms can be employed to impact the motion of ultracold ground state atoms. Specifically, we use an off-resonant two-photon laser dressing to map features of the Rydberg states on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-08-12 Michael Mayle , Igor Lesanovsky , Peter Schmelcher

Configurable arrays of optically trapped Rydberg atoms are a versatile platform for quantum computation and quantum simulation, also allowing controllable decoherence. We demonstrate theoretically, that they also enable proof-of-principle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Kaustav Mukherjee , Johannes Schachenmayer , Shannon Whitlock , Sebastian Wüster

We describe a method for controlling many-body states in extended ensembles of Rydberg atoms, forming crystalline structures during laser excitation of a frozen atomic gas. Specifically, we predict the existence of an excitation number…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 T. Pohl , E. Demler , M. D. Lukin

We introduce a novel method to engineer sharply peaked, distance-selective interactions between neutral atoms by exploiting interaction-induced resonances within a resonantly driven Rydberg ladder system. By tuning laser parameters, a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Mohammadsadegh Khazali

Spin squeezing has been explored in atomic systems as a tool for quantum sensing, improving experimental sensitivity beyond the spin standard quantum limit for certain measurements. To optimize absolute metrological sensitivity, it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-21 Eric Boyers , Garry Goldstein , Alexander O. Sushkov

The large electric dipole moments associated with highly excited Rydberg states of atoms and molecules make gas-phase samples in these states very well suited to deceleration and trapping using inhomogeneous electric fields. The methods of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-16 Stephen D. Hogan

We study the dynamical generation and storage of spin squeezed states, as well as more entangled states up to macroscopic superpositions, in a system composed of a few ultra-cold atoms trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-08-05 M. Płodzień , M. Kościelski , E. Witkowska , A. Sinatra

Interlaced Spin Grating is a scheme for the preparation of spectro-spatial periodic absorption gratings in a inhomogeneously broadened absorption profile. It relies on the optical pumping of atoms in a nearby long-lived ground state…

We revisit the implementation of a two-qubit entangling gate, the M{\o}lmer-S{\o}rensen gate, using the adiabatic Rydberg dressing paradigm for neutral atoms as studied in [Phys. Rev. A 101, 030301 (R) (2020)]. We study the implementation…

Paradigmatic spin Hamiltonians in condensed matter and quantum sensing typically utilize pair-wise or 2-body interactions between constituents in the material or ensemble. However, there is growing interest in exploring more general…

We describe a method to create and store scalable and long-lived entangled spin-squeezed states within a manifold of many-body cavity dark states using collective emission of light from multilevel atoms inside an optical cavity. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-22 Bhuvanesh Sundar , Diego Barberena , Ana Maria Rey , Asier Piñeiro Orioli

We propose a scheme to simulate lattice spin models based on strong and long-range interacting Rydberg atoms stored in a large-spacing array of magnetic microtraps. Each spin is encoded in a collective spin state involving a single $nP$…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Shannon Whitlock , Alexander W. Glaetzle , Peter Hannaford

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

The spin squeezing protocols allow the dynamical generation of massively correlated quantum many-body states, which can be utilized in entanglement-enhanced metrology and technologies. We study a quantum simulator generating twisting…

Using a quantum theory for an ensemble of three-level atoms (lambda) placed in an optical cavity abd driven by electromagnetic fields, we show that the long-lived spin associated with the ground state sublevels can be squeezed. Two kinds of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Dantan , M. Pinard , V. Josse , N. Nayak , P. R. Berman

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