Dissipative many-body physics of cold Rydberg atoms

Year: 2018

Authors: Morsch O., Lesanovsky I.

Autors Affiliation: INO CNR, Largo Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; Dipartimento Fis, Largo Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; Univ Nottingham, Sch Phys & Astron, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England; Univ Nottingham, Ctr Math & Theoret Phys Quantum Nonequilibrium Sy, Nottingham NG7 2RD, England.

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.

Journal/Review: RIVISTA DEL NUOVO CIMENTO

Volume: 41 (7)      Pages from: 383  to: 414

More Information: The work reviewed in this paper was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union´s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement No. 335266 (ESCQUMA), the EU-FET grant HAIRS 612862 and from the University of Nottingham. Further funding was received through the H2020-FETPROACT-2014 grant No. 640378 (RYSQ) and the EPSRC Grant no. EP/M014266/1. IL gratefully acknowledges support through the Royal Society Wolf-son Merit Award. OM thanks Cristiano Simonelli for assistance in the preparation of the figures.
KeyWords: Rydberg atoms, Many-body systems, phase-transitions, excited atoms, quantum, blockade, gas
DOI: 10.1393/ncr/i2018-10149-7

Citations: 10
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