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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 37: Ultracold Plasmas and Rydberg Systems
Q 37.4: Talk
Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 15:30–15:45, P 104
Simulating Rydberg dressing of a one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate — •Graham Lochead1,2, Marcin Plodzien3, Julius de Hond2, N. J. van Druten2, and Servaas Kokkelmans3 — 1Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimerfeld 226, 69120 Heidelberg — 2van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands — 3Eindhoven University of Technology, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Rydberg dressing is the process of weakly admixing strongly interacting Rydberg-character into an otherwise weakly interacting ground state. These systems have the benefit of having strong, controllable, long-range interactions while still maintaining relatively long lifetimes. These properties have lead to many proposals for exotic many-body states/phases. In this talk I will present simulations of the influence of Rydberg dressed interactions on a 1D Bose-Einstein condensate, and show the advantages of 1D geometries over 3D for experimental observation. I will also describe a current experimental setup investigating Rydberg dressing in a 1D BEC.