Rydberg Composites

We introduce the Rydberg composite, a new class of Rydberg matter where a single Rydberg atom is interfaced with a dense environment of neutral ground state atoms. The properties of the composite depend on both the Rydberg excitation, which provides the gross energetic and spatial scales, and the di...

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Autores principales: Andrew L. Hunter, Matthew T. Eiles, Alexander Eisfeld, Jan M. Rost
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:6f36446a0f724b05b39c9e02d0ee9ec92021-12-02T10:53:21ZRydberg Composites10.1103/PhysRevX.10.0310462160-3308https://doaj.org/article/6f36446a0f724b05b39c9e02d0ee9ec92020-08-01T00:00:00Zhttp://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.031046http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.031046https://doaj.org/toc/2160-3308We introduce the Rydberg composite, a new class of Rydberg matter where a single Rydberg atom is interfaced with a dense environment of neutral ground state atoms. The properties of the composite depend on both the Rydberg excitation, which provides the gross energetic and spatial scales, and the distribution of ground state atoms within the volume of the Rydberg wave function, which sculpt the electronic states. The latter range from the “trilobites,” for small numbers of scatterers, to delocalized and chaotic eigenstates, for disordered scatterer arrays, culminating in the dense scatterer limit in symmetry-dominated wave functions which promise good control in future experiments. We discuss one-, two-, and three-dimensional arrangements of scatterers using different theoretical methods, enabling us to obtain scaling behavior for the regular spectrum and measures of chaos and delocalization in the disordered regime. We also show that analogous quantum dot composites can elucidate in particular the dense scatterer limit. Thus, we obtain a systematic description of the composite states. The two-dimensional monolayer composite possesses the richest spectrum with an intricate band structure in the limit of homogeneous scatterers, experimentally accessible with pancake-shaped condensates.Andrew L. HunterMatthew T. EilesAlexander EisfeldJan M. RostAmerican Physical SocietyarticlePhysicsQC1-999ENPhysical Review X, Vol 10, Iss 3, p 031046 (2020)
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Andrew L. Hunter
Matthew T. Eiles
Alexander Eisfeld
Jan M. Rost
Rydberg Composites
description We introduce the Rydberg composite, a new class of Rydberg matter where a single Rydberg atom is interfaced with a dense environment of neutral ground state atoms. The properties of the composite depend on both the Rydberg excitation, which provides the gross energetic and spatial scales, and the distribution of ground state atoms within the volume of the Rydberg wave function, which sculpt the electronic states. The latter range from the “trilobites,” for small numbers of scatterers, to delocalized and chaotic eigenstates, for disordered scatterer arrays, culminating in the dense scatterer limit in symmetry-dominated wave functions which promise good control in future experiments. We discuss one-, two-, and three-dimensional arrangements of scatterers using different theoretical methods, enabling us to obtain scaling behavior for the regular spectrum and measures of chaos and delocalization in the disordered regime. We also show that analogous quantum dot composites can elucidate in particular the dense scatterer limit. Thus, we obtain a systematic description of the composite states. The two-dimensional monolayer composite possesses the richest spectrum with an intricate band structure in the limit of homogeneous scatterers, experimentally accessible with pancake-shaped condensates.
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