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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 32: Poster: Quantum gases, ultracold atoms and molecules
Q 32.83: Poster
Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 16:30–18:30, Spree-Palais
Optical control and detection of an ultracold Rydberg gas — •Peter Schauß1, Johannes Zeiher1, Sebastian Hild1, Frauke Seeßelberg1, Takeshi Fukuhara1, Marc Cheneau2, Manuel Endres1, Tommaso Macri3, Thomas Pohl3, Christian Groß1, and Immanuel Bloch1,4 — 1Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Straße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany — 2Laboratoire Charles Fabry - Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France — 3Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany — 4Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Schellingstraße 4, 80799 München, Germany
Rydberg atoms open new perspectives for long-range correlated many-body states due to their strong van der Waals interactions. In our setup we optically excite Rydberg atoms and detect them with
submicron resolution, which allows us to measure spatial correlations of resulting ordered states.
The system sizes studied in experiment allow for high-accuracy simulation of the Rydberg Hamiltonian. Theoretical development of optimal adiabatic pulses and experimental studies can thus proceed side
by side, both profiting strongly from each other.
We will present our recent progress in detection and control of these finite Rydberg systems.