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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 62: Poster: Quantum Optics and Photonics III
Q 62.10: Poster
Thursday, March 26, 2015, 17:00–19:00, C/Foyer
Collective Rabi oscillations and progress towards Rydberg dressing — •Peter Schauß1, Johannes Zeiher1, Sebastian Hild1, Jae-yoon Choi1, Tommaso Macri2, Rick van Bijnen2, Thomas Pohl2, Immanuel Bloch1,3, and Christian Groß1 — 1Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Straße 1, 85748 Garching, Germany — 2Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany — 3Fakultät 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 one experiment, we investigate Rydberg gases in the fully dipole blockaded regime and observe coherent collective Rabi oscillations for ensembles from a single up to 180 atoms. We optically excite the Rydberg atoms and detect them with submicron resolution, allowing to gain information about the local structure of the prepared states, especially where the fully-blockaded assumption breaks down.
In a second experiment, we implemented single-photon excitation to rubidium Rydberg P-states via an ultra-violet transition at 297 nm. We report on the observation of correlated loss due to the P-state Rydberg-Rydberg interactions and first experiments on Rydberg dressing potentials.