A concise review of Rydberg atom based quantum computation and quantum simulation

X Wu, X Liang, Y Tian, F Yang, C Chen, YC Liu… - Chinese …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum information processing based on Rydberg atoms emerged as a promising
direction two decades ago. Recent experimental and theoretical progresses have shined …

Colloquium: Strongly interacting photons in one-dimensional continuum

D Roy, CM Wilson, O Firstenberg - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Photon-photon scattering in vacuum is extremely weak. However, strong effective
interactions between single photons can be realized by employing strong light-matter …

Tunable two-dimensional arrays of single Rydberg atoms for realizing quantum Ising models

H Labuhn, D Barredo, S Ravets, S De Léséleuc… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Spin models are the prime example of simplified many-body Hamiltonians used to model
complex, strongly correlated real-world materials. However, despite the simplified character …

[HTML][HTML] ARC: An open-source library for calculating properties of alkali Rydberg atoms

N Šibalić, JD Pritchard, CS Adams… - Computer Physics …, 2017 - Elsevier
We present an object-oriented Python library for the computation of properties of highly-
excited Rydberg states of alkali atoms. These include single-body effects such as dipole …

Cold hybrid ion-atom systems

M Tomza, K Jachymski, R Gerritsma, A Negretti… - Reviews of modern …, 2019 - APS
Hybrid systems of laser-cooled trapped ions and ultracold atoms combined in a single
experimental setup have recently emerged as a new platform for fundamental research in …

Probing the quench dynamics of antiferromagnetic correlations in a 2D quantum Ising spin system

E Guardado-Sanchez, PT Brown, D Mitra, T Devakul… - Physical Review X, 2018 - APS
Simulating the real-time evolution of quantum spin systems far out of equilibrium poses a
major theoretical challenge, especially in more than one dimension. We experimentally …

Nonlinear quantum optics mediated by Rydberg interactions

O Firstenberg, CS Adams… - Journal of Physics B …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
By mapping the strong interaction between Rydberg excitations in ultra-cold atomic
ensembles onto single photons via electromagnetically induced transparency, it is now …

[HTML][HTML] ARC 3.0: An expanded Python toolbox for atomic physics calculations

EJ Robertson, N Šibalić, RM Potvliege… - Computer Physics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract ARC 3.0 is a modular, object-oriented Python library combining data and algorithms
to enable the calculation of a range of properties of alkali and divalent atoms. Building on …

Contactless nonlinear optics mediated by long-range Rydberg interactions

H Busche, P Huillery, SW Ball, T Ilieva, MPA Jones… - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
In conventional nonlinear optics, linear quantum optics,, and cavity quantum
electrodynamics, to create effective photon–photon interactions photons must have, at one …

Mesoscopic Rydberg impurity in an atomic quantum gas

R Schmidt, HR Sadeghpour, E Demler - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
Giant impurity excitations are powerful probes for exploring new regimes of far out of
equilibrium dynamics in few-and many-body quantum systems, and in situ observations of …