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DY: Fachverband Dynamik und Statistische Physik

DY 15: Quantum Dynamics, Decoherence, Quantum Information

DY 15.3: Talk

Tuesday, March 21, 2017, 10:00–10:15, ZEU 160

Reservoir engineering using Rydberg atoms — •David W. Schönleber, Christopher D. B. Bentley, and Alexander Eisfeld — Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, 01187 Dresden

We apply reservoir engineering to construct a thermal environment with controllable temperature in an ultracold atomic Rydberg system [1]. A Boltzmann distribution of the system's eigenstates is produced by optically driving a small environment of ultracold atoms, which is coupled to a photonic continuum through spontaneous emission. This technique provides a useful tool for quantum simulation of both equilibrium dynamics and dynamics coupled to a thermal environment. Additionally, we demonstrate that pure eigenstates, such as Bell states, can be prepared in the Rydberg atomic system using this method.

[1] D. W. Schönleber et al., arXiv:1611.02914 (2016)