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Recently, Rydberg atom has emerged as an attractive choice to realize quantum sensing of low-frequency electric field. The progress so far has mostly utilized the intensity and phase changes in probe laser and the corresponding detection…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Ding Wang , Shenchao Jin , Xiayang Fan , Hongjing Li , Jiatian Liu , Jingzheng Huang , Guihua Zeng , Yuan Sun

Rydberg atom-based electrometry enables traceable electric field measurements with high sensitivity over a large frequency range, from gigahertz to terahertz. Such measurements are particularly useful for the calibration of radio frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Santosh Kumar , Haoquan Fan , Harald Kübler , Akbar J. Jahangiri , James P. Shaffer

Rydberg atom electrometry offers traceable electric field measurements over many decades of radio frequencies in a single device. Miniaturization of these sensors is primarily limited by requirements of the lasers used. Here we demonstrate…

The dynamics of the outer electron in an alkali atom in the presence of structured electromagnetic waves is described. The interaction of the alkali Rydberg atom with twisted radiowaves is considered. The two schemes for Rydberg-atom based…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 P. O. Kazinski , P. S. Korolev , V. A. Ryakin

Rydberg atomic sensors and receivers have enabled sensitive and traceable measurements of RF fields at a wide range of frequencies. Here we demonstrate the detection of electric field amplitude in the extremely high frequency (EHF) band, at…

Atom-based radio frequency electromagnetic field sensing using atomic Rydberg states is a promising technique that has recently attracted significant interest. Its unique advantages, such as extraordinary bandwidth, self-calibration and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Katelyn Dixon , Kent Nickerson , Donald W. Booth , James P. Shaffer

We report experimental measurements showing how one can combine quantum interference and thermal Doppler shifts at room temperature to detect weak magnetic fields. We pump ${}^{87}$Rb atoms to a highly-excited, Rydberg level using a probe…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Shovan Kanti Barik , Silpa B S , M Venkat Ramana , Shovan Dutta , Sanjukta Roy

Rydberg microwave (MW) sensors are superior to conventional antenna-based techniques because of their wide operating frequency range and outstanding potential sensitivity. Here, we demonstrate a Rydberg microwave receiver with a high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Bowen Yang , Yuhan Yan , Xuejie Li , Ling Xiao , Xiaolin Li , L. Q. Chen , Jianliao Deng , Huadong Cheng

A non-resonant microwave dressing field at 38.465 GHz was used to eliminate the static electric dipole moment difference between the $49s_{1/2}$ and $48s_{1/2}$ Rydberg states of $^{87}$Rb in dc fields of approximately 1 V/cm. The reduced…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 L. A. Jones , J. D. Carter , J. D. D. Martin

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 atom-based sensors are a new type of radio frequency sensor that is inherently quantum mechanical. Several configurations of the sensor use a local oscillator to determine the properties of the target radio frequency field. We…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Mohammad Noaman , Donald W. Booth , James P. Shaffer

Novel sensors that leverage the quantum properties of atoms for measuring propagating electromagnetic fields are becoming increasingly practical for a variety of applications. These sensors rely on the phenomenon of electromagnetically…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Peter Vouras , Bariscan Yonel , Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse

Governed by the hairy ball theorem, classical antennas with isotropic responses to linearly polarized radio waves are unrealizable. This work shows that the antenna based on Rydberg atoms can theoretically achieve an ideal isotropic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Shaoxin Yuan , Mingyong Jing , Hao Zhang , Linjie Zhang , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia

Modeling the effect of Doppler broadening due to the thermal atomic motion of Rydberg sensors typically relies on sampling a large velocity class, solving the equations of motion for each velocity, and then averaging the atomic density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Omar Nagib , Thad G. Walker

Recognition of multifrequency microwave (MW) electric fields is challenging because of the complex interference of multifrequency fields in practical applications. Rydberg atom-based measurements for multifrequency MW electric fields is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Zong-Kai Liu , Li-Hua Zhang , Bang Liu , Zheng-Yuan Zhang , Guang-Can Guo , Dong-Sheng Ding , Bao-Sen Shi

Rydberg atoms, with their long coherence time and large electric dipole moment, are pivotal in quantum precision measurement. In the process of approaching the standard quantum limit, higher demands are placed on detection schemes. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Yinghang Jiang , Jiguo Wu , Meng Shi , Hanqing Zheng , Fei Guo , Zhiguang Xiao , Zhiyou Zhang

This paper presents an experimental study to evaluate the effects of antenna radiation parameters on the detection capabilities of a 2.4 GHz Doppler radar used in non-contact heart rate monitoring systems. Four different types of patch…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-03 Mehrdad Nosrati , Negar Tavassolian

The electric field measurement sensitivity based on the Rydberg atomic vapor cell has great theoretical advantages over traditional dipole antennas. We combine the Rydberg atomic heterodyne receiver and the Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI)…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Shanchi Wu , Chen Gong , Rui Ni

Rydberg atomic sensors have been adopted for novel radio frequency (RF) measurement technique and the sensing capability for signals in multiple frequencies makes it attractive for multi-user communication. However, unlike traditional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Hao Wu , Chongwu Xie , Xinyuan Yao , Kang-Da Wu , Shanchi Wu , Rui Ni , Guo-Yong Xiang , Chen Gong

Rydberg atomic quantum receivers have been seen as novel radio frequency measurements and the high sensitivity to a large range of frequencies makes it attractive for communications reception. However, their unique physical characteristics…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-24 Hao Wu , Xinyuan Yao , Rui Ni , Chen Gong , Kaibin Huang