Rydberg atom quantum technologies

CS Adams, JD Pritchard… - Journal of Physics B …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This topical review addresses how Rydberg atoms can serve as building blocks for
emerging quantum technologies. Whereas the fabrication of large numbers of artificial …

Atom based RF electric field sensing

H Fan, S Kumar, J Sedlacek, H Kübler… - Journal of Physics B …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Atom-based measurements of length, time, gravity, inertial forces and electromagnetic fields
are receiving increasing attention. Atoms possess properties that suggest clear advantages …

Highly sensitive measurement of a megahertz rf electric field with a Rydberg-atom sensor

B Liu, LH Zhang, ZK Liu, ZY Zhang, ZH Zhu, W Gao… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Rydberg atoms have great potential in electric field measurement and have an advantage
with a large frequency bandwidth from the kHz to the THz scale. However, the sensitivity for …

Experimental investigations of dipole–dipole interactions between a few Rydberg atoms

A Browaeys, D Barredo, T Lahaye - Journal of Physics B: Atomic …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This review summarizes experimental works performed over the last decade by several
groups on the manipulation of a few individual interacting Rydberg atoms. These studies …

Determining the angle-of-arrival of a radio-frequency source with a Rydberg atom-based sensor

AK Robinson, N Prajapati, D Senic, MT Simons… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we demonstrate the use of a Rydberg atom-based sensor for determining the
angle of arrival of an incident radio frequency (RF) wave or signal. The technique uses …

Broadband Rydberg atom-based electric-field probe for SI-traceable, self-calibrated measurements

CL Holloway, JA Gordon, S Jefferts… - … on Antennas and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Digital communication with Rydberg atoms and amplitude-modulated microwave fields

DH Meyer, KC Cox, FK Fatemi, PD Kunz - Applied Physics Letters, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Rydberg states of alkali atoms in atomic vapour as SI-traceable field probes and communications receivers

N Schlossberger, N Prajapati, S Berweger… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Rydberg states of alkali atoms are highly sensitive to electric fields because their electron
wavefunction has a large spatial extent, leading to large polarizabilities for static fields and …

[HTML][HTML] Continuously tunable radio frequency electrometry with Rydberg atoms

J Hu, H Li, R Song, J Bai, Y Jiao, J Zhao… - Applied Physics Letters, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate a continuously tunable electric field measurement based on the far off-
resonant AC stark effect in a Rydberg atomic vapor cell. In this configuration, a strong far off …

Electric field metrology for SI traceability: Systematic measurement uncertainties in electromagnetically induced transparency in atomic vapor

CL Holloway, MT Simons, JA Gordon… - Journal of Applied …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We investigate the relationship between the Rabi frequency (XRF, related to the applied
electric field) and Autler-Townes (AT) splitting, when performing atom-based radio …