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Many-body Rabi oscillations of Rydberg excitation in small mesoscopic samples

Source: Phys. Rev. A 80, 033418 (2009); doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.80.033418

Published 28 September 2009

KEYWORDS and PACS
Keywords
PACS
  • 32.80.Rm
    Multiphoton ionization and excitation to highly excited states in atoms
  • 03.67.Lx
    Quantum computation architectures and implementations
  • 34.20.Cf
    Interatomic potentials and forces
  • YEAR: 2009
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J. Stanojevic1,2 and R. Côté1
1Physics Department, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3046, USA
2Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, 01887 Dresden, Germany
We investigate collective aspects of Rydberg excitations in ultracold mesoscopic samples. Strong interactions between Rydberg atoms influence the excitation process and impose correlations between excited atoms. The manifestations of the collective behavior of Rydberg excitations are many-body Rabi oscillations, spatial correlations between atoms, as well as fluctuations in the number of excited atoms. We study these phenomena in detail by numerically solving the many-body Schrödinger equation, using a “superatom” approach. We find that, under certain conditions, these many-body behaviors could be observed experimentally. ©2009 The American Physical Society
History: Received 29 April 2009; published 28 September 2009
Permalink: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v80/e033418

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