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NATURE PHYSICS
卷 11, 期 2, 页码 157-161出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS3214
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- DFG within the SFB/TRR [49]
- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships
The control of strongly interacting many-body systems enables the creation of tailored quantum matter with complex properties. Atomic ensembles that are optically driven to a Rydberg state provide many examples for this atom-atom entanglement(1,2), many-body Rabi oscillations(3), strong photon-photon interaction(4) and spatial pair correlations(5). In its most basic form Rydberg quantum matter consists of an isolated ensemble of strongly interacting atoms spatially confined to the blockade volume-a superatom. Here we demonstrate the controlled creation and characterization of an isolated mesoscopic superatom by means of accurate density engineering and excitation to Rydberg p-states. Its variable size allows the investigation of the transition from effective two-level physics to many-body phenomena. By monitoring continuous laser-induced ionization we observe a strongly anti-bunched ion emission under blockade conditions and extremely bunched ion emission under off-resonant excitation. Our measurements provide insights into both excitation statistics and dynamics. We anticipate applications in quantum optics and quantum information as well as many-body physics experiments.
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