2016/11/09 by David W. Schönleber, Schönleber, David W., C. D. Bentley +4 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1611.02914
5 pages, 4 figures; 5 pages supp. inf. incl. 3 figures
openalex publication_date 2016/11/09 · arxiv created 2017/03/17 · arxiv updated 2017/03/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We apply reservoir engineering to construct a thermal environment with controllable temperature in an ultracold atomic Rydberg system. 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 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.