Effects of molecular resonances on Rydberg blockade
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Derevianko, Andrei
Kómár, Péter
Topcu, Turker
Kroeze, Ronen M.
Lukin, Mikhail D.
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2015
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We study the effect of resonances associated with complex molecular interaction of Rydberg atoms on Rydberg blockade. We show that densely spaced molecular potentials between doubly excited atomic pairs become unavoidably resonant with the optical excitation at short interatomic separations. Such molecular resonances limit the coherent control of individual excitations in Rydberg blockade. As an illustration, we compute the molecular interaction potentials of Rb atoms near the 100s states asymptote to characterize such detrimental molecular resonances and determine the resonant loss rate to molecules and inhomogeneous light shifts. Techniques to avoid the undesired effect of molecular resonances are discussed.
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Derevianko, A., K髆醨, P., Topcu, T., Kroeze, R. M., & Lukin, M. D. (2015). Effects of molecular resonances on Rydberg blockade. Physical Review A, 92(6). doi:10.1103/physreva.92.063419
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1050-2947