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Networks of Rydberg atoms provide a powerful basis for quantum simulators and quantum technologies. Inspired by matter-wave atomtronics, here we engineer switches, diodes and universal logic gates. Our schemes control the Rydberg excitation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Philip Kitson , Tobias Haug , Antonino La Magna , Oliver Morsch , Luigi Amico

Rydberg atom arrays have emerged as a leading platform for quantum information science. Reaching system sizes of hundreds of long-lived qubits, these arrays are used for highly coherent analog quantum simulation, as well as digital quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Shraddha Anand , Conor E. Bradley , Ryan White , Vikram Ramesh , Kevin Singh , Hannes Bernien

The Rydberg-based microwave detection is an all-optical technology that uses the strong coherent interaction between Rydberg atoms and microwave field. Different from the traditional microwave meter, the Rydberg atomic sensing is a new-type…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Xue Jingjing , Li Ruonan , Hu Xuesong , Sun Peisheng , Zhou Haitao , Zang Junxiang

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

Quantum sensors offer the capability to reach unprecedented precision by operating at the standard quantum limit (SQL) or beyond by using quantum entanglement. But an emerging class of quantum sensors that use Rydberg…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 David H. Meyer , Chistopher O'Brien , Donald P. Fahey , Kevin C. Cox , Paul D. Kunz

As the development of electronic science and technology, electronic data acquisition (DAQ) system is more and more widely applied to nuclear physics experiments. Workstations are often utilized for data storage, data display, data…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-26 Hongwei Yu , Kezhu Song , Junfeng Yang , Kehan Li , Tengfei Chen , Shiyu Luo , Cheng Tang , Han Yu

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…

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

The rapid advancement of the next generation of communications and internet of things (IoT) technologies has made the provision of location-based services for diverse devices an increasingly pressing necessity. Localizing devices…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Yixuan Guo , Qingwei Jiang , Mengyuan Xu , Wen Fang , Qingwen Liu , Gang Yan , Qunhui Yang , Hai Lu

We propose and demonstrate a modulation transfer protocol to increase the detection sensitivity of a Rydberg RF receiver to fields out of resonance from the transition between Rydberg levels. This protocol is based on a phase modulation of…

Applicability of Rydberg atoms to quantum computers is examined from experimental point of view. In many theoretical proposals appeared recently, excitation of atoms into highly excited Rydberg states was considered as a way to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor I. Ryabtsev , Denis B. Tretyakov , Ilya I. Beterov

Direct-conversion radio (DCR) receivers can offer highly integrated low-cost hardware solutions for spectrum sensing in cognitive radio systems. However, DCR receivers are susceptible to radio frequency (RF) impairments, such as in-phase…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-23 Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos , Nestor D. Chatzidiamantis , George K. Karagiannidis

We demonstrate Rydberg atom-based radio frequency sensing with a colinear three-photon scheme in a room temperature cesium vapor cell that minimizes residual Doppler broadening of the probe laser absorption feature. A sub-200 kHz spectral…

Recently, several array radar structures combined with sub-Nyquist techniques and corresponding algorithms have been extensively studied. Carrier frequency and direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimations of multiple narrow-band signals received…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-29 Zhan Zhang , Ping Wei , Lijuan Deng , Huaguo Zhang

Information retrieval from passive backscatter systems is widely used in digital applications with tight energy budgets, short communication distances, and low data rates. Due to the fundamental limits of classical wireless receivers, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Shiqian Guo , Tingxiang Ji , Jianqing Liu

This paper investigates a fluid reconfigurable intelligent surface (FRIS)-assisted Rydberg Atomic REceiver (RARE) architecture under magnitude-only heterodyne readout. We show that, unlike conventional coherent systems, the optimal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Hong-Bae Jeon , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae

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…

The problem of direction of arrival (DOA) estimation has been studied for decades as an essential technology in enabling radar, wireless communications, and array signal processing related applications. In this paper, the DOA estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-22 Peng Chen , Zhimin Chen , Zhenxin Cao , Xianbin Wang

At hybrid analog-digital (HAD) transceiver, an improved HAD rotational invariance techniques (ESPRIT), called I-HAD-ESPRIT, is proposed to measure the direction of arrival (DOA) of desired user, where the phase ambiguity due to HAD…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Feng Shu , Ling Xu , Jinyong Lin , Jingsong Hu , Lingqing Gui , Jun Li , Jiangzhou Wang

Rydberg atoms have attracted significant interest recently as electric field sensors. In order to assess potential applications, detailed understanding of relevant figures of merit is necessary, particularly in relation to other, more…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 David H. Meyer , Zachary A. Castillo , Kevin C. Cox , Paul D. Kunz