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Rydberg atoms held in optical tweezer arrays combine vibrational and electronic degrees of freedom which can be coupled and manipulated at a microscopic level. This opens opportunities for the quantum simulation of artificial molecular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Simon Euchner , Igor Lesanovsky

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

Interaction between Rydberg atoms can significantly modify Rydberg excitation dynamics. Under a resonant driving field the Rydberg-Rydberg interaction in high-lying states can induce shifts in the atomic resonance such that a secondary…

Hyperentanglement~(HE), the simultaneous entanglement between two particles in more than one degrees of freedom, is relevant to both fundamental physics and quantum technology. Previous study on HE has been focusing on photons. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Xiao-Feng Shi

Van der Waals interactions, as a result of the exchange of photons between particles, can be altered by modifying the environment through which these photons propagate. As a consequence, phenomena such as the Rydberg blockade mechanism…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Johannes Block , Stefan Scheel

Architectures for quantum computing based on neutral atoms have risen to prominence as candidates for both near and long-term applications. These devices are particularly well suited to solve independent set problems, as the combinatorial…

Analogous to Coulomb blockade for electrons, photon blockade is a key quantum optical effect in which the presence of one photon prevents the transmission of subsequent ones through a nonlinear medium. Beyond its fundamental interest,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Lijuan Dong , Aanal Jayesh Shah , Peter Kirton , Hadiseh Alaeian , Simone Felicetti

We propose an efficient quantum repeater architecture with mesoscopic atomic ensembles, where the Rydberg blockade is employed for deterministic local entanglement generation, entanglement swapping and entanglement purification. Compared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-28 Bo Zhao , Markus Mueller , Klemens Hammerer , Peter Zoller

We propose a hybrid optomechanical quantum system consisting of a moving membrane strongly coupled to an ensemble of N atoms with a Rydberg state. Due to the strong van-der-Waals interaction between the atoms, the ensemble forms an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Carmele , B. Vogell , K. Stannigel , P. Zoller

We present the experimental demonstration of Rydberg blockade in thermal atomic vapor where the atoms are not necessarily be frozen. We show that not all the interacting atoms but only the atoms with same velocity collectively participate…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-02-20 Arup Bhowmick , Dushmanta Kara , Ashok K. Mohapatra

We observe a series of conical intersections in the potential energy curves governing both the collision between a Rydberg atom and a ground-state atom and the structure of Rydberg molecules. By employing the electronic energy of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Frederic Hummel , Matthew T. Eiles , Peter Schmelcher

We report on our recent progress on the manipulation of single rubidium atoms trapped in optical tweezers and the generation of entanglement between two atoms, each individually trapped in neighboring tweezers. To create an entangled state…

Rydberg atoms are currently a very fast advancing quantum platform. For many interesting and demanding applications, including quantum computation, fast detection of a Rydberg excitation or a Rydberg qubit for information readout would be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Jinjin Du , Thibault Vogt , Ningxuan Zheng , Wenhui Li

The coupling of an isolated quantum state to a continuum is typically associated with decoherence and decreased lifetime. Here, we demonstrate that Rydberg macrodimers, weakly bound pairs of Rydberg atoms, can overcome this dissipative…

We develop an approach to realize a quantum switch for Rydberg excitation in atoms with $Y$-typed level configuration. We find that the steady population on two different Rydberg states can be reversibly exchanged in a controllable way by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Jing Qian

We propose to use a permutation symmetric sample of multi-level atoms to simulate the properties of topologically ordered states. The Rydberg blockade interaction is used to prepare states of the sample which are equivalent to resonating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-25 Anne E. B. Nielsen , Klaus Mølmer

The interaction between a Rydberg electron and a neutral atom situated inside its extended orbit is described via contact interactions for each atom-electron scattering channel. In ultracold environments, these interactions lead to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Matthew T Eiles , Chris H Greene

Rydberg atoms stand out as a highly promising platform for realizing quantum computation with significant advantages in constructing high-fidelity quantum gates. Floquet frequency modulation (FFM), in Rydberg-atom systems, provides a unique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Jun Wu , Jin-Lei Wu , Fu-Qiang Guo , Bing-Bing Liu , Shi-Lei Su , Xue-Ke Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

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

Arrays of ultracold neutral atoms, also known as Rydberg atom arrays, are rapidly developing into a powerful and versatile platform for quantum simulation. However, theoretical predictions about the bulk quantum phases of matter present in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-22 Yash M. Lokare , Matthew J. Coley-O'Rourke