Rydberg Dressing in Optical Tweezer Arrays

ORAL

Abstract

Neutral atoms in microtrap arrays brought to interaction by Rydberg coupling offer a novel platform to study quantum magnetism. We have constructed a new experiment with potassium atoms, which aims to induce the magnetic interactions via near-resonant Rydberg coupling, so called Rydberg dressing. Here we report on coherent Rydberg coupling in a two dimensional array of single atoms. We observe fast coherent Rabi oscillations of single atoms as well as of small Rydberg superatoms. Finally we discuss first experiments towards Rydberg dressing induced interactions among atomic ground states.

Authors

  • Nikolaus Lorenz

    • Max-Planck Instititute of Quantum Optics
  • Lorenzo Festa

    • Max-Planck Instititute of Quantum Optics
  • Lea Steinert

    • Max-Planck Instititute of Quantum Optics
  • Philip Osterholz

    • Max-Planck Instititute of Quantum Optics
  • Robin Eberhard

    • Max-Planck Instititute of Quantum Optics
  • Christian Gross

    • Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen