Observation of collective excitation of two individual atoms in the Rydberg blockade regime

Nature Physics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 115-118

  Gaëtan, Alpha ^a   Miroshnychenko, Yevhen ^a   Wilk, Tatjana ^a   Chotia, Amodsen ^b   Viteau, Matthieu ^b   Comparat, Daniel ^b   Pillet, Pierre ^b   Browaeys, Antoine ^a   Grangier, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; EXCITED STATES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

COLLECTIVE EXCITATIONS; EXCITED ELECTRONIC STATE; FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES; QUANTUM INFORMATION SCIENCE; QUANTUM METROLOGY; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; RYDBERG BLOCKADES; STRONGLY CORRELATED SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 59449097781     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1183     Document Type: Article

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