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Periodically driven Floquet quantum systems hold great promise for engineering exotic quantum phases and matter, but are often limited by rapid thermalization. In this work, we propose and demonstrate a square-wave-modulated Floquet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Yunhui He , Yuechun Jiao , Jianming Zhao , Weibin Li

Previously, we had proposed the technique of light shift imbalance induced blockade which leads to a condition where a collection of non-interacting atoms under laser excitation remains combined to a superposition of the ground and the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yanfei Tu , May E. Kim , Selim M. Shahriar

Ensembles of atoms interacting via their Rydberg levels, known as "superatoms" for their ability to encode qubits and to emit single photons, attract increasing attention as building blocks for quantum network nodes. Assessing their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Valentin Magro , Sébastien Garcia , Alexei Ourjoumtsev

Over the past few years we have built an apparatus to demonstrate the entanglement of neutral Rb atoms at optically resolvable distances using the strong interactions between Rydberg atoms. Here we review the basic physics involved in this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Thad G. Walker , Mark Saffman

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

Measurement-based quantum computing relies on the rapid creation of large-scale entanglement in a register of stable qubits. Atomic arrays are well suited to store quantum information, and entanglement can be created using highly-excited…

The Rydberg blockade effect plays an important role in realizing two-qubit gates in atomic arrays. Meanwhile, such mechanics will increase the crosstalk between atoms and enhance the decoherence. In this paper, we propose a new scheme to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Yue Ming , Zhao-Xin Fu , Yan-Xiong Du

In this Letter, we report a parameter-dependent Hilbert space fragmentation in a one-dimensional Rydberg atom array under anti-blockade conditions. We identify distinct non-equilibrium dynamical phases and show that their quasi-periodic…

We present an efficient method for producing $N$ particle entangled states using Rydberg blockade interactions. Optical excitation of Rydberg states that interact weakly, yet have a strong coupling to a second control state is used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-01 M. Saffman , K. Molmer

Assembled arrays of individual atoms with Rydberg-mediated interactions provide a powerful platform for the simulation of many-body spin Hamiltonians as well as the implementation of universal gate-based quantum information processing. We…

Enhancing interactions between Rydberg atoms is a key challenge in contemporary quantum technologies. Stronger interactions enable faster Rydberg gates in digital processors and larger entangled states in analog simulation. Achieving the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Lukas Palm , Bowen Li , Yiming Cady Feng , Marius Jürgensen , Jon Simon

Preparation of entangled steady states via dissipation and pumping in Rydberg atoms has been recently found to be useful for quantum information processing. The driven-dissipative dynamics is closely related to the natural linewidth of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Zong-Xing Ding , Chang-Sheng Hu , Li-Tuo Shen , Zhen-Biao Yang , Huaizhi Wu , Shi-Biao Zheng

In the rapid development of cold atom qubit platform, the two-qubit Controlled-PHASE Rydberg blockade gate via off-resonant modulated driving has been making significant progress recently. In pursuit of higher fidelity, faster operation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-07 Yuan Sun

Neutral atoms are promising for large-scale quantum computing, but accurate neutral-atom entanglement depends on large Rydberg interactions which strongly limit the interatomic distances. Via a phase accumulation in detuned Rabi cycles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Xiao-Feng Shi , Yan Lu

We propose a protocol to realize arbitrary state synthesis and unitary operations on a qudit encoded in the collective dressed states of a Rydberg blockaded array of three-level atoms. This system is isomorphic to the Jaynes-Cummings model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Achille Robert , Tom Bienaimé

We study the population trapping extensively in a periodically driven Rydberg pair. The periodic modulation of the atom-light detuning effectively suppresses the Rabi couplings and, together with Rydberg-Rydberg interactions, leads to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-01 S. Kumar Mallavarapu , Ankita Niranjan , Weibin Li , Sebastian Wüster , Rejish Nath

Experiments performed within the last year have demonstrated Rydberg state mediated quantum gates and deterministic entanglement between pairs of trapped neutral atoms. These experiments validate ten year old proposals for Rydberg mediated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M Saffman , X L Zhang , A T Gill , L Isenhower , T G Walker

Exploring controllable interactions lies at the heart of quantum science. Neutral Rydberg atoms provide a versatile route toward flexible interactions between single quanta. Previous efforts mainly focused on the excitation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Xiao-Feng Shi

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

This topical review addresses how Rydberg atoms can serve as building blocks for emerging quantum technologies. Whereas the fabrication of large numbers of artificial quantum systems with the uniformity required for the most attractive…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 C. S. Adams , J. D. Pritchard , J. P. Shaffer