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In recent years, micromachined vapor cells have been revolutionizing the field of chip-scale quantum sensors such as magnetometers and atomic clocks. In parallel, Rydberg atomic quantum sensing has emerged as a powerful technique for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Avital Giat , Kfir Levi , Ori Nefesh , Liron Stern

Rydberg-atom electrometry, as an emerging cutting-edge technology, features high sensitivity, broad bandwidth, calibration-free operation, and beyond. However, until now the key atomic vapor cells used for confining electric field-sensitive…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Yintao Ma , Beibei Sun , Pan Chen , Yao Chen , Yanbin Wang , Ju Guo , Mingzhi Yu , Ping Yang , Qijing Lina , Libo Zhao

We describe a quantum information architecture consisting of a hybrid array of optically-trapped molecules and atoms. This design leverages the large transition dipole moments of Rydberg atoms to mediate fast, high-fidelity gates between…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Kenneth Wang , Conner P. Williams , Lewis R. B. Picard , Norman Y. Yao , Kang-Kuen Ni

We show that cold Rydberg gases enable an efficient six-wave mixing process where terahertz or microwave fields are coherently converted into optical fields and vice versa. This process is made possible by the long lifetime of Rydberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-12 Martin Kiffner , Amir Feizpour , Krzysztof T. Kaczmarek , Dieter Jaksch , Joshua Nunn

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…

Individual neutral atoms excited to Rydberg states are a promising platform for quantum simulation and quantum information processing. However, experimental progress to date has been limited by short coherence times and relatively low gate…

The ladder configuration of atomic levels provides a source for telecom photons (signal) from the upper atomic transition. \ For rubidium and cesium atoms, the signal field has the range around 1.3-1.5 $\mu$m that can be coupled to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 H. H. Jen

Although Rydberg atom-based electric field sensing provides key advantages over traditional antenna-based detection, it remains limited by the need for a local oscillator (LO) for low-field and phase resolved detection. In this work, we…

We measure strong radio-frequency (RF) electric fields using rubidium Rydberg atoms prepared in a room-temperature vapor cell as field sensors. Electromagnetically induced transparency is employed as an optical readout. We RF-modulate the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 Stephanie A. Miller , David A. Anderson , Georg Raithel

Rydberg atomic (RA) receivers represent a revolutionary quantum technology for wireless communications, offering unprecedented sensitivity beyond conventional radio frequency (RF) antennas. However, these receivers detect only signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jiuyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

Divalent atoms provide excellent means for advancing control in Rydberg atom-based quantum simulation and computing, due to the second optically active valence electron available. Particularly promising in this context are circular Rydberg…

Motivated by recent progress in the experimental manipulation of cold atoms in optical lattices, we study three different protocols for non-adiabatic quantum state preparation and state transport in chains of Rydberg atoms. The protocols we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-07 Maike Ostmann , Jiří Minář , Matteo Marcuzzi , Emanuele Levi , Igor Lesanovsky

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems using Rydberg atomic (RA) receivers face significant scalability challenges in signal detection due to their nonlinear signal models. This letter proposes phase-rotated symbol spreading (PRSS),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jiuyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

This topical review addresses how Rydberg atoms can serve as building blocks for emerging quantum technologies. Whereas the fabrication of large numbers of artificial quantum systems with the uniformity required for the most attractive…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 C. S. Adams , J. D. Pritchard , J. P. Shaffer

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

We discuss a fundamentally new approach for the measurement of electric (E) fields that will lead to the development of a broadband, direct SI-traceable, compact, self-calibrating E-field probe (sensor). This approach is based on the…

Arrays of Rydberg atoms in the blockade regime realize a wealth of strongly correlated quantum physics, but theoretical analysis beyond the chain is rather difficult. Here we study a tractable model of Rydberg-blockade atoms on the square…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-13 Luisa Eck , Paul Fendley

Neutral atom platform has become an attractive choice to study the science of quantum information and quantum simulation, where intense efforts have been devoted to the entangling processes between individual atoms. For the development of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Zhuo Fu , Peng Xu , Yuan Sun , Yangyang Liu , Xiaodong He , Xiao Li , Min Liu , Runbing Li , Jin Wang , Liang Liu , Mingsheng Zhan

Rydberg blockaded gate is a fundamental ingredient for scalable quantum computation with neutral Rydberg atoms. However the fidelity of such a gate is intrinsically limited by a blockade error coming from a Rydberg level shift that forbids…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Dongmin Yu , Han Wang , Danan Ma , Xing-dong Zhao , Jing Qian

Quantum enhanced receivers are endowed with resources to achieve higher sensitivities than conventional technologies. For application in optical communications, they provide improved discriminatory capabilities for multiple non-orthogonal…