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We demonstrate the continuous broadband microwave receivers based on AC Stark shifts and Floquet States of Rydberg levels in a cesium atomic vapor cell. The resonant transition frequency of two adjacent Rydberg states 78$S_{1/2}$ and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-11-06 Danni Song , Yuechun Jiao , Jinlian Hu , Yuwen Yin , Zhenhua Li , Yunhui He , Jingxu Bai , Jianming Zhao , Suotang Jia

Quantum sensing has attracted significant attention due to its ability to measure physical quantities with extremely high accuracy. Rydberg atoms - typically alkali atoms with a highly excited valence electron that is far from the nucleus -…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Javane Rostampoor , Raviraj Adve

Since its theoretical sensitivity is limited by quantum noise, radio wave sensing based on Rydberg atoms has the potential to replace its traditional counterparts with higher sensitivity and has developed rapidly in recent years. However,…

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

Microwave electric (MW) field measurements utilizing Rydberg atoms have witnessed significant advancements, achieving remarkable sensitivity, albeit limited to discrete MW frequencies resonant with Rydberg states. Recently, various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Sheng-Xian Xiao , Tao Wang

Rydberg atoms have great potential in electric field measurement and have an advantage with a large frequency bandwidth from the kHz to the THz scale. However, the sensitivity for measuring a weak MHz electric field signal is limited by the…

Rydberg atom-based radio frequency electromagnetic field sensors are drawing wide-spread interest because of their unique properties, such as small size, dielectric construction, and self-calibration. These photonic sensors use lasers to…

The Rydberg atomic quantum receivers (RAQR) are emerging quantum precision sensing platforms designed for receiving radio frequency (RF) signals. It relies on creation of Rydberg atoms from normal atoms by exciting one or more electrons to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-15 Tierui Gong , Aveek Chandra , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan , Rainer Dumke , Chong Meng Samson See , Mérouane Debbah , Lajos Hanzo

An optical probe of cesium Rydberg atoms generated in a thermal vapor cell is used to retrieve a baseband signal modulated onto a 16.98-GHz carrier wave in real-time, demonstrating an atom-based quantum receiver suitable for microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Yuechun Jiao , Xiaoxuan Han , Jiabei Fan , Georg Raithel , Jianming Zhao , Suotang Jia

The highly sensitive, phase- and frequency-resolved detection of microwave electric fields is of central importance for diverse fields ranging from astronomy, remote sensing, communication and microwave quantum technology. However, present…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Mingyong Jing , Ying Hu , Jie Ma , Hao Zhang , Linjie Zhang , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia

Rydberg atoms, with one highly-excited, nearly-ionized electron, have extreme sensitivity to electric fields, including microwave fields ranging from 100 MHz to over 1 THz. Here we show that room-temperature Rydberg atoms can be used as…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 David H. Meyer , Kevin C. Cox , Fredrik K. Fatemi , Paul D. Kunz

Rydberg atom,which exhibits a strong response to weak electric(E) fields,is regarded as a promising atomic receiver to surpass sensitivity of conventional receivers. However, its sensitivity is strongly limited by the noise coming from both…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Bo Wu , Ruiqi Mao , Yi Liu , Di Sang , Yanli Zhou , Yi Lin , Qiang An , Yunqi Fu

We use a quantum sensor based on thermal Rydberg atoms to receive data encoded in electromagnetic fields in the extreme electrically small regime, with a sensing volume over $10^7$ times smaller than the cube of the electric field…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Kevin C. Cox , David H. Meyer , Fredrik K. Fatemi , Paul D. Kunz

Rydberg atoms, due to their large polarizabilities and strong transition dipole moments, have been utilized as sensitive electric field sensors. While their capability to detect modulated signals has been previously demonstrated, these…

Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in atomic systems involving Rydberg states is known to be a sensitive probe of incident microwave (MW) fields, in particular those resonant with Rydberg-to-Rydberg transitions. Here we propose…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-10-06 Sebastian Borówka , Uliana Pylypenko , Mateusz Mazelanik , Michał Parniak

Rydberg atom radio frequency sensors are a unique platform for precision electromagnetic field measurement, e.g. they have extraordinary carrier bandwidth spanning MHz-THz and can be self-calibrated. These photonic sensors use lasers to…

In this article we describe the basic principles of Rydberg atom-based RF sensing and present the development of atomic pulsed RF detection and RF phase sensing establishing capabilities pertinent to applications in communications and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-12 David Alexander Anderson , Rachel Elizabeth Sapiro , Georg Raithel

Rydberg atoms have great potential for microwave (MW) measurements due to their high sensitivity, broad carrier bandwidth, and traceability. However, the narrow instantaneous bandwidth of the MW receiver limits its applications. Improving…

Microwave (MW) field sensing is foundational to modern technology, yet its evolution, reliant on classical antennas, is constrained by fundamental physical limits on field, temporal, and spatial resolutions. Here, we demonstrate an MW…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Yao-Wen Zhang , De-Sheng Xiang , Ren Liao , Hao-Xiang Liu , Biao Xu , Peng Zhou , Yijia Zhou , Kuan Zhang , Lin Li

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 atom based sensors allow for SI traceable measurements and show promise for applications in the field of communication and radar technologies. In this article, we investigate the bandwidth and sensitivity of a Rydberg atom-based…