Dissipative many-body physics of cold Rydberg atoms

Morsch, Oliver and Lesanovsky, Igor (2018) Dissipative many-body physics of cold Rydberg atoms. Rivista del Nuovo Cimento, 14 (7). pp. 383-414. ISSN 1826-9850

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Abstract

In the last twenty years, Rydberg atoms have become a versatile and much studied system for implementing quantum many-body systems in the framework of quantum computation and quantum simulation. However, even in the absence of coherent evolution Rydberg systems exhibit interesting and non-trivial many-body phenomena such as kinetic constraints and non-equilibrium phase transitions that are relevant in a number of research fields. Here we review our recent work on such systems, where dissipation leads to incoherent dynamics and also to population decay. We show that those two effects, together with the strong interactions between Rydberg atoms, give rise to a number of intriguing phenomena that make cold Rydberg atoms an attractive test-bed for classical many-body processes and quantum generalizations thereof.

Item Type: Article
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Physics and Astronomy
Identification Number: 10.1393/ncr/i2018-10149-7
Depositing User: Hatton, Mrs Kirsty
Date Deposited: 27 Sep 2018 14:03
Last Modified: 27 Sep 2018 14:07
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/55183

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