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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

In an ensemble of laser-driven atoms involving strongly interacting Rydberg states, the excitation probability is usually strongly suppressed. In contrast, here we identify a regime in which the steady-state Rydberg excited fraction is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Martin Gärttner , Shannon Whitlock , David W. Schönleber , Jörg Evers

We observe the direct excitation of pairs of Cs atoms from the ground state to molecular states correlating asymptotically to $ns\,n'f$ asymptotes. The molecular resonances are interpreted as originating from the dipole-quadrupole…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 Johannes Deiglmayr , Heiner Saßmannshausen , Pierre Pillet , Frédéric Merkt

We investigate the dynamics of a strongly interacting spin system that is motivated by current experimental realizations of strongly interacting Rydberg gases in lattices. In particular we are interested in the temporal evolution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-31 B. Olmos , R. González-Férez , I. Lesanovsky , L. Velázquez

We show that ultracold chemical reactions can be manipulated and controlled by using Rydberg-dressed interactions. Scattering in the ultracold regime is sensitive to long-range interactions, especially when weakly bound (or quasi-bound)…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jia Wang , Jason N. Byrd , Ion Simbotin , R. Côté

We study the dissipative propagation of quantized light in interacting Rydberg media under the conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). Rydberg blockade physics in optically dense atomic media leads to strong…

Higgs and Goldstone modes manifest as fluctuations in the order parameter of system, offering insights into its phase transitions and symmetry properties. Exploring the dynamics of these collective excitations in a Rydberg atoms system…

The structure and photoexcitation dynamics of high lying doubly excited states of the strontium atom with high angular momenta are studied in the vicinity of the Sr$^+(N=5)$ threshold. The spectra recorded using resonant multiphoton…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 M. Génévriez , U. Eichmann

This article proposes the first discrete-time implementation of Rydberg quantum walk in multi-dimensional spatial space that could ideally simulate different classes of topological insulators. Using distance-selective exchange-interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-11 Mohammadsadegh Khazali

Due to quantum confinement, excitons in finite-sized crystals behave rather differently than in bulk materials. We investigate the dependence of energies of Rydberg excitons on the strengths of parabolic as well as rectangular confinement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-07 Pavel A. Belov , Florian Morawetz , Sjard Ole Krüger , Niklas Scheuler , Patric Rommel , Jörg Main , Harald Giessen , Stefan Scheel

We experimentally and theoretically investigate the dephasing rates of the coherent evolution of a resonantly driven pseudo spin emersed in a reservoir of pseudo spins. The pseudo spin is realized by optically exciting 87 Rb atoms to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-17 U. Raitzsch , R. Heidemann , H. Weimer , V. Bendkowsky , B. Butscher , P. Kollmann , R. Löw , H. P. Büchler , T. Pfau

The dynamics of Rydberg states of a hydrogen atom subject simultaneously to uniform static electric field and two microwave fields with commensurate frequencies is considered in the range of small fields amplitudes. In the certain range of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Krzysztof Sacha , Jakub Zakrzewski

A density matrix formalism is employed to calculate the emission of multi-level excitonic system, highlighting picosecond-scale dynamics and coherent effects such as quantum beats. The results are compared with recent experimental results…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-08 Sylwia Zielińska-Raczyńska , David Ziemkiewicz

Assemblies of highly excited Rydberg atoms in an ultracold gas can be set into motion by a combination of van-der-Waals and resonant dipole-dipole interactions. Thereby, the collective electronic Rydberg state might change due to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Ritesh Pant , Rajat Agrawal , Sebastian Wüster , Jan-Michael Rost

The dynamics of excitonic energy transfer in molecular complexes triggered by interaction with laser pulses offers a unique window into the underlying physical processes. The absorbed energy moves through the network of interlinked pigments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Tobias Kramer

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

A theory of Rydberg atom interactions is used to derive analytical forms for the spin wave pair correlation function in laser-excited cold-atom vapors. This function controls the quantum statistics of light emission from dense,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-09 F. Bariani , Paul M. Goldbart , T. A. B. Kennedy

Rydberg atoms provide a powerful platform for exploring strongly interacting quantum systems, both in free space and in structured electromagnetic environments, with growing applications in quantum technology. Accurately modeling their…

Thermodynamics and dynamics of a classical two-dimensional system with dipole-like isotropic repulsive interactions are studied systematically using extensive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations supplemented by appropriate theoretical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Sergey Khrapak , Nikita Kryuchkov , Stanislav Yurchenko

We investigate the nonlinear refraction induced by Rydberg excitons in $\mathrm{Cu_2O}$. Using a high-precision interferometry imaging technique that spatially resolves the nonlinear phase shift, we observe significant shifts at extremely…