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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

Over the past decade, Rydberg atom electric field sensors have been under investigation as potential alternatives or complements to conventional antenna-based receivers for select applications in RF communications, remote sensing, and…

Rydberg atom arrays constitute a promising quantum information platform, where control over several hundred qubits has been demonstrated. Further scaling could significantly benefit from coupling to integrated optical or electronic devices,…

Rydberg blockade gates are the most experimentally mature entangling operations in neutral-atom quantum processors, combining fast gate times with simple control, but their performance degrades at larger interatomic separations and remains…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Nader Mostaan , Kapil Goswami , Peter Schmelcher , Rick Mukherjee

We propose an efficient protocol to realize multi-qubit gates in arrays of neutral atoms. The atoms encode qubits in the long-lived hyperfine sublevels of the ground electronic state. To realize the gate, we apply a global laser pulse to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Antonis Delakouras , Georgios Doultsinos , David Petrosyan

Rydberg atoms, with their giant electronic orbitals, exhibit dipole-dipole interaction reaching the GHz range at a distance of a micron, making them a prominent contender for realizing quantum operations well within their coherence time.…

Optically trapped Rydberg atoms are a suitable platform to explore quantum many-body physics mediated by long-range atom--atom interactions that can be engineered through externally applied light fields. However, this approach is limited to…

Neutral atom array serves as an ideal platform to study the quantum logic gates, where intense efforts have been devoted to improve the two-qubit gate fidelity. We report our recent findings in constructing a different type of two-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Yuan Sun , Peng Xu , Ping-Xing Chen

We propose a quantum sensor for electric fields based on networks of Rydberg atoms. The sensing mechanism exploits the strong dependence of the Rydberg blockade on the applied electric field near a F\"orster resonance. In this regime,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Philip Kitson , Wayne J. Chetcuti , Gerhard Birkl , Luigi Amico , Juan Polo

Nano-mechanical oscillators as well as Rydberg-atomic waveguides hosted on micro-fabricated chip surfaces hold promise to become pillars of future quantum technologies. In a hybrid platform with both, we show that beams of Rydberg atoms in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 A. Sanz-Mora , S. Wüster , J. -M. Rost

Programmable arrays of neutral Rydberg atoms are one of the leading platforms today for scalable quantum simulation and computation. In these systems, the dipole-dipole interactions between the individual atoms, or qubits, typically result…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-15 Rhine Samajdar , Mikhail D. Lukin , Valentin Walther

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

Accurate quantum gates are basic elements for building quantum computers. There has been great interest in designing quantum logic gates by using blockade effect of Rydberg atoms recently. The fidelity and operation speed of these gates,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Xiao-Feng Shi

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

Neutral-atom quantum simulators offer a promising approach to the exploration of strongly interacting many-body systems, with applications spanning condensed matter, statistical mechanics, and high-energy physics. Through a combination of…

In condensed matter, it is often difficult to untangle the effects of competing interactions, and this is especially problematic for superconductors. Quantum simulators may help: here we show how exploiting the properties of highly excited…

Superconductivity · Physics 2012-11-30 J. P. Hague , C. MacCormick

In this chapter, we present an overview of experiments with trapped Rydberg ions and outline the advantages and challenges of developing applications of this new platform for quantum computing, sensing and simulation. Trapped Rydberg ions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Arezoo Mokhberi , Markus Hennrich , Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler

We present a blueprint for building a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer with Rydberg atoms. Our scheme, which is based on the surface code, uses individually-addressable optically-trapped atoms as qubits and exploits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 James M. Auger , Silvia Bergamini , Dan E. Browne

Atomtronics is an emerging field in quantum technology that promises to realize 'atomic circuit' architectures exploiting ultra-cold atoms manipulated in versatile micro-optical circuits generated by laser fields of different shapes and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Luigi Amico , Gerhard Birkl , Malcolm Boshier , Leong-Chuan Kwek

The properties and behaviour of a Ring Rydberg Composite are explicated. This system consists of a ring of ground state atoms centered on a Rydberg atom, whose electron elastically scatters off the ground state atoms. We transform the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Matthew T. Eiles , Andrew L. Hunter , Jan M. Rost