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A: Fachverband Atomphysik
A 40: Poster: Ultra-cold plasmas and Rydberg systems (with Q)
A 40.7: Poster
Thursday, March 21, 2013, 16:00–18:30, Empore Lichthof
Static and dynamical properties of two-dimensional Rydberg lattices — •Sebnem Günes Söyler1, Tommaso Macri1, Thomas Pohl1, Peter Schauß2, Marc Cheneau2, Manuel Endres2, Takeshi Fukuhara2, Sebastian Hild2, Ahmed Omran2, Christian Gross2, Stefan Kuhr2,3, and Immanuel Bloch2,4 — 1Max Planck Institut für Physik Komplexer Systeme, Dresden, Germany — 2Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany — 3University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK — 4Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München, Germany
Recent experimental efforts to manipulate long range interactions in cold atomic setups offer a unique way to study strongly correlated quantum systems. Among them Rydberg atoms are particularly interesting due to their extremely large dipole moments that result in enormous interactions acting over micrometer distances. We investigate the ground state phase diagram of Rydberg-excited atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice by large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations. In addition, we explore suitable schemes for the dynamical preparation of the resulting quantum phases in the presence of imperfections and de-coherence under realistic experimental conditions.