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Interference of cavity light by a single atom acting as a double slit (2023)
Journal Article
Zhou, Y., Li, X., Li, W., & Zhang, H. (2023). Interference of cavity light by a single atom acting as a double slit. Physical Review A, 108(6), Article 063711. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.063711

Young's double-slit interference experiment is central to quantum mechanics. While it has been demonstrated that an array of atoms can produce interference in light, it is a fundamental question to ask whether a single atom can act as a double slit w... Read More about Interference of cavity light by a single atom acting as a double slit.

Rydberg-ion flywheel for quantum work storage (2023)
Journal Article
Martins, W. S., Carollo, F., Li, W., Brandner, K., & Lesanovsky, I. (2023). Rydberg-ion flywheel for quantum work storage. Physical Review A, 108(5), Article L050201. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.L050201

Trapped ions provide a platform for quantum technologies that offers long coherence times and high degrees of scalability and controllability. Here, we use this platform to develop a realistic model of a thermal device consisting of two laser-driven,... Read More about Rydberg-ion flywheel for quantum work storage.

Accelerating relaxation through Liouvillian exceptional point (2023)
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Zhou, Y.-L., Yu, X.-D., Wu, C.-W., Li, X.-Q., Zhang, J., Li, W., & Chen, P.-X. (2023). Accelerating relaxation through Liouvillian exceptional point. Physical Review Research, 5(4), Article 043036. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.043036

We investigate speeding up of relaxation of Markovian open quantum systems with the Liouvillian exceptional point (LEP), where the slowest decay mode degenerate with a faster decay mode. The degeneracy significantly increases the gap of the Liouvilli... Read More about Accelerating relaxation through Liouvillian exceptional point.

Thermal-dephasing-tolerant generation of mesoscopic superposition states with Rydberg dressed blockade (2023)
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Zheng, R.-H., Su, S.-L., Song, J., Li, W., & Xia, Y. (2023). Thermal-dephasing-tolerant generation of mesoscopic superposition states with Rydberg dressed blockade. Physical Review A, 108(4), Article 042405. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.042405

Multipartite entangled states involving nonlocality are one of the most fascinating characteristics of quantum mechanics. In this work we propose a thermal-dephasing-tolerant generation of mesoscopic entangled states with Rydberg dressed atoms. We en... Read More about Thermal-dephasing-tolerant generation of mesoscopic superposition states with Rydberg dressed blockade.

Quantum sensing of microwave electric fields based on Rydberg atoms (2023)
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Yuan, J., Yang, W., Jing, M., Zhang, H., Jiao, Y., Li, W., Zhang, L., Xiao, L., & Jia, S. (2023). Quantum sensing of microwave electric fields based on Rydberg atoms. Reports on Progress in Physics, 86(10), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6633/acf22f

Microwave electric field (MW E-field) sensing is important for a wide range of applications in the areas of remote sensing, radar astronomy and communications. Over the past decade, Rydberg atoms have been used in ultrasensitive, wide broadband, trac... Read More about Quantum sensing of microwave electric fields based on Rydberg atoms.

High-Fidelity Interconversion between Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger and W States through Floquet-Lindblad Engineering in Rydberg Atom Arrays (2023)
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Shao, X. Q., Liu, F., Xue, X. W., Mu, W. L., & Li, W. (2023). High-Fidelity Interconversion between Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger and W States through Floquet-Lindblad Engineering in Rydberg Atom Arrays. Physical Review Applied, 20(1), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.20.014014

Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger and W states feature genuine tripartite entanglement that cannot be converted into each other by local operations and classical communication. Here, we present a dissipative protocol for deterministic interconversion betwe... Read More about High-Fidelity Interconversion between Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger and W States through Floquet-Lindblad Engineering in Rydberg Atom Arrays.

Controllable bistability and squeezing of confined polariton dark solitons (2023)
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Wang, G., Hou, K., Liu, Y., Bi, H., Li, W., & Xue, Y. (2023). Controllable bistability and squeezing of confined polariton dark solitons. Optics Express, 31(14), 22722-22732. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.493274

The generation of squeezed light in semiconductor materials opens opportunities for building on-chip devices that are operated at the quantum level. Here we study theoretically a squeezed light source of polariton dark solitons confined in a geometri... Read More about Controllable bistability and squeezing of confined polariton dark solitons.

Signatures of Quantum Chaos of Rydberg-Dressed Bosons in a Triple-Well Potential (2023)
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Yan, T., Collins, M., Nath, R., & Li, W. (2023). Signatures of Quantum Chaos of Rydberg-Dressed Bosons in a Triple-Well Potential. Atoms, 11(6), Article 89. https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms11060089

We studied signatures of quantum chaos in dynamics of Rydberg-dressed bosonic atoms held in a one-dimensional triple-well potential. Long-range nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor interactions, induced by laser dressing atoms to strongly inter... Read More about Signatures of Quantum Chaos of Rydberg-Dressed Bosons in a Triple-Well Potential.

High-Sensitivity Rydberg-Atom-Based Phase-Modulation Receiver for Frequency-Division-Multiplexing Communication (2023)
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Cai, Y., Shi, S., Zhou, Y., Li, Y., Yu, J., Li, W., & Li, L. (2023). High-Sensitivity Rydberg-Atom-Based Phase-Modulation Receiver for Frequency-Division-Multiplexing Communication. Physical Review Applied, 19(4), Article 044079. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.044079

Due to the exaggerated properties of highly excited atomic states, a Rydberg-atom-based microwave receiver holds the promise to achieve superior performances in microwave metrology and communication when compared to conventional antennas. However, de... Read More about High-Sensitivity Rydberg-Atom-Based Phase-Modulation Receiver for Frequency-Division-Multiplexing Communication.

Casimir-Polder interactions of S-state Rydberg atoms with graphene (2023)
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Wongcharoenbhorn, K., Koller, C., Fromhold, T. M., & Li, W. (2023). Casimir-Polder interactions of S-state Rydberg atoms with graphene. Physical Review A, 107(4), Article 043308. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.043308

We investigate the thermal Casimir-Polder (CP) potential of 87Rb atoms in Rydberg nS-states near single- and double-layer graphene, and briefly look into the lifetimes near graphene-hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) multilayered structures. The dependenc... Read More about Casimir-Polder interactions of S-state Rydberg atoms with graphene.