Berlin 2005 – scientific programme

Parts | Days | Selection | Search | Downloads | Help

A: Atomphysik

A 13: Poster HU 2

A 13.18: Poster

Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 08:30–18:30, Poster HU

Ultracold Rydberg Atoms in a Structured Environment — •Ivan C.H. Liu and Jan-Michael Rost — Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, D-011870, Dresden, Germany

We investigate the properties of a single Rydberg atom surrounded by regularly spaced groundstate atoms as created by an optical lattice. Interesting questions arise in the context of the recently discussed dipole blockade in ultracold gases [1,2], where a Rydberg atom is surrounded by an unstructured environment of gaseous atoms, for instance, how the angular momentum characteristics of the Rydberg wavefunction influence the range of the dipole blockade.

[1] D. Tong et al PRL 93, 063001 (2004)

[2] K. Singer et al PRL 93, 163001 (2004)