Controlled dissipation for Rydberg atom experiments

2023/10/31 by Bleuenn Bégoc, Bégoc, Bleuenn, Giovanni Cichelli +13 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2310.20687

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Abstract

We demonstrate a simple technique for adding controlled dissipation to Rydberg atom experiments. In our experiments we excite cold rubidium atoms in a magneto-optical trap to 70-S Rydberg states, whilst simultaneously inducing forced dissipation by resonantly coupling the Rydberg state to a hyperfine level of the short-lived 6-P state. The resulting effective dissipation can be varied in strength and switched on and off during a single experimental cycle.

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