Rubidium Rydberg atoms are laser excited and subsequently trapped in a one-dimensional
optical lattice (wavelength 1064 nm). Efficient trapping is achieved by a lattice inversion …

We demonstrate the state dependence of the ponderomotive energy shift of Rydberg atoms
in an optical lattice using microwave spectroscopy. Unique to Rydberg atoms, this …

We propose to use the ponderomotive energy of Rydberg electrons in standing-wave light
fields to form an optical lattice for Rydberg atoms. Application of the Born-Oppenheimer …

It is shown that the two-step excitation scheme typically used to create an ultracold Rydberg
gas can be described with an effective two-level rate equation, greatly reducing the …

We study the quantum nonequilibrium dynamics of ultracold three-level atoms trapped in an
optical lattice, which are excited to their Rydberg states via a two-photon excitation with non …

We demonstrate two schemes for the coherent excitation of Rydberg atoms in an ultracold
gas of rubidium atoms employing the three-level ladder system 5S1/2–5P3/2-nℓj. In the first …

We study atoms in optical lattices whose electronic ground state is off-resonantly coupled to
a highly excited state with strong binary interactions. We present a time-dependent treatment …

We propose to use adiabatic rapid passage with a chirped laser pulse in the strong dipole
blockade regime to deterministically excite only one Rydberg atom from randomly loaded …

The laser excitation of Rydberg atoms in ultracold gases is often described assuming that
the atomic motion is frozen during the excitation time. We show that this frozen gas …

We investigate the many-body quantum states of a laser-driven gas of Rydberg atoms
confined to a large spacing ring lattice. If the laser driving is much stronger than the van der …