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Dissipative stabilization of high-dimensional GHZ states for neutral atoms (2024)
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Zhao, Y., Yang, Y., Li, W., & Shao, X. (2024). Dissipative stabilization of high-dimensional GHZ states for neutral atoms. Applied Physics Letters, 124(11), Article 114001. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0192602

High-dimensional quantum entanglement characterizes the entanglement of quantum systems within a larger Hilbert space, introducing more intricate and complex correlations among the entangled particles' states. The high-dimensional Greenberger-Horne-Z... Read More about Dissipative stabilization of high-dimensional GHZ states for neutral atoms.

Ergodicity breaking from Rydberg clusters in a driven-dissipative many-body system (2024)
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Ding, D., Bai, Z., Liu, Z., Shi, B., Guo, G., Li, W., & Adams, C. S. (2024). Ergodicity breaking from Rydberg clusters in a driven-dissipative many-body system. Science Advances, 10(9), Article eadl5893. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl5893

It is challenging to probe ergodicity breaking trends of a quantum many-body system when dissipation inevitably damages quantum coherence originated from coherent coupling and dispersive two-body interactions. Rydberg atoms provide a test bed to dete... Read More about Ergodicity breaking from Rydberg clusters in a driven-dissipative many-body system.

Interference of cavity light by a single atom acting as a double slit (2023)
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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)
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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., Yu, X., Wu, C., Li, X., Zhang, J., Li, W., & Chen, P. (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., Su, S., 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 non-locality 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... 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., …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.

Maximally entangled Rydberg-atom pairs via Landau-Zener sweeps (2023)
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Varghese, D., Wüster, S., Li, W., & Nath, R. (2023). Maximally entangled Rydberg-atom pairs via Landau-Zener sweeps. Physical Review A, 107(4), Article 043311. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.043311

We analyze the formation of maximally entangled Rydberg atom pairs subjected to Landau-Zener sweeps of the atom-light detuning. Though the populations reach a steady value at longer times, the phases evolve continuously, leading to periodic oscillati... Read More about Maximally entangled Rydberg-atom pairs via Landau-Zener sweeps.

Rabi- and Blockade-Error-Resilient All-Geometric Rydberg Quantum Gates (2023)
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Su, S. L., Sun, L. N., Liu, B. J., Yan, L. L., Yung, M. H., Li, W., & Feng, M. (2023). Rabi- and Blockade-Error-Resilient All-Geometric Rydberg Quantum Gates. Physical Review Applied, 19(4), Article 044007. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.044007

We propose a nontrivial two-qubit gate scheme in which Rydberg atoms are subject to designed pulses resulting from geometric evolution processes. By utilizing hybrid robust nonadiabatic and adiabatic geometric operations on the control atom and targe... Read More about Rabi- and Blockade-Error-Resilient All-Geometric Rydberg Quantum Gates.

Accessing and manipulating dispersive shock waves in a nonlinear and nonlocal Rydberg medium (2023)
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Hang, C., Bai, Z., Li, W., Kamchatnov, A. M., & Huang, G. (2023). Accessing and manipulating dispersive shock waves in a nonlinear and nonlocal Rydberg medium. Physical Review A, 107(3), Article 033503. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.033503

Dispersive shock waves (DSWs) are fascinating wave phenomena occurring in media when nonlinearity overwhelms dispersion (or diffraction). Creating DSWs with low generation power and realizing their active controls is desirable but remains a longstand... Read More about Accessing and manipulating dispersive shock waves in a nonlinear and nonlocal Rydberg medium.

Dephasing of ultracold cesium 80í µí°· 5/2 -Rydberg Electromagnetically Induced Transparency (2023)
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Jiao, Y., Hao, L., Bai, J., Fan, J., Bai, Z., Li, W., …Jia, S. (2023). Dephasing of ultracold cesium 80í µí°· 5/2 -Rydberg Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. Optics Express, 31(5), 7545-7553. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.479448

We study Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) of a cascade three-level atom involving 80í µí°· 5/2 state in a strong interaction regime employing a cesium ultracold cloud. In our experiment, a strong coupling laser couples 6í µí±ƒ 3... Read More about Dephasing of ultracold cesium 80í µí°· 5/2 -Rydberg Electromagnetically Induced Transparency.

Dephasing of ultracold cesium 80D5/2-Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency (2023)
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Jiao, Y., Hao, L., Bai, J., Fan, J., Bai, Z., Li, W., …Jia, S. (2023). Dephasing of ultracold cesium 80D5/2-Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency. Optics Express, 31(5), 7545-7553. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.479448

We study Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) of a cascade three-level atom involving 80D5/2 state in a strong interaction regime employing a cesium ultracold cloud. In our experiment, a strong coupling laser couples 6P3/2 to 80D5/2... Read More about Dephasing of ultracold cesium 80D5/2-Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency.

Facilitation-Induced Transparency and Single-Photon Switch with Dual-Channel Rydberg Interactions (2023)
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Ding, Y., Bai, Z., Huang, G., & Li, W. (2023). Facilitation-Induced Transparency and Single-Photon Switch with Dual-Channel Rydberg Interactions. Physical Review Applied, 19(1), Article 014017. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.014017

We investigate facilitation-induced transparency (FIT) enabled by strong and long-range Rydberg atom interactions between two spatially separated optical channels. In this setting, the resonant two-photon excitation of Rydberg states in a target chan... Read More about Facilitation-Induced Transparency and Single-Photon Switch with Dual-Channel Rydberg Interactions.

Superradiance-induced multistability in one-dimensional driven Rydberg lattice gases (2022)
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He, Y., Bai, Z., Jiao, Y., Zhao, J., & Li, W. (2022). Superradiance-induced multistability in one-dimensional driven Rydberg lattice gases. Physical Review A, 106(6), Article 063319. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.106.063319

We study steady-state phases of a one-dimensional array of Rydberg atoms coupled by a microwave (MW) field where the higher-energy Rydberg state decays to the lower-energy one via single-body and collective (superradiant) decay. Using mean-field appr... Read More about Superradiance-induced multistability in one-dimensional driven Rydberg lattice gases.

A multi-band atomic candle with microwave-dressed Rydberg atoms (2022)
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Cai, Y., Shi, S., Zhou, Y., Yu, J., Tian, Y., Li, Y., …Shi, S. (2023). A multi-band atomic candle with microwave-dressed Rydberg atoms. Frontiers of Physics, 18(1), Article 12302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11467-022-1218-6

Stabilizing important physical quantities to atom-based standards lies at the heart of modern atomic, molecular and optical physics, and is widely applied to the field of precision metrology. Of particular importance is the atom-based microwave field... Read More about A multi-band atomic candle with microwave-dressed Rydberg atoms.