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Observation of collectivity enhanced magnetoassociation of 6Li in the quantum degenerate regime (2022)
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Naniyil, V., Zhou, Y., Simmonds, G., Cooper, N., Li, W., & Hackermüller, L. (2022). Observation of collectivity enhanced magnetoassociation of 6Li in the quantum degenerate regime. New Journal of Physics, 24(11), Article 113005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac9b81

The association process of Feshbach molecules is well described by a Landau-Zener (LZ) transition above the Fermi temperature, such that two-body physics dominates the dynamics. However, using 6Li atoms and the associated Feshbach resonance at B r =... Read More about Observation of collectivity enhanced magnetoassociation of 6Li in the quantum degenerate regime.

Observation of collectivity enhanced magnetoassociation of 6 Li in the quantum degenerate regime (2022)
Journal Article
Naniyil, V., Zhou, Y., Simmonds, G., Cooper, N., Li, W., & Hackermüller, L. (2022). Observation of collectivity enhanced magnetoassociation of 6 Li in the quantum degenerate regime. New Journal of Physics, 24, Article 113005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac9b81

The association process of Feshbach molecules is well described by a Landau-Zener transition above the Fermi temperature, such that two-body physics dominates the dynamics. However, using 6 Li atoms and the associated Feshbach resonance at B r = 834.... Read More about Observation of collectivity enhanced magnetoassociation of 6 Li in the quantum degenerate regime.

Single Temporal-Pulse-Modulated Parameterized Controlled-Phase Gate for Rydberg Atoms (2022)
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Li, X. .., Shao, X. Q., & Li, W. (2022). Single Temporal-Pulse-Modulated Parameterized Controlled-Phase Gate for Rydberg Atoms. Physical Review Applied, 18(4), Article 044042. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.044042

We propose an adiabatic protocol for implementing a controlled-phase gate CZθ with continuous θ of neutral atoms through a symmetrical two-photon excitation process via the second resonance line, 6P in 87Rb, with a single-temporal-modulation-coupling... Read More about Single Temporal-Pulse-Modulated Parameterized Controlled-Phase Gate for Rydberg Atoms.

Integer and Fractional Floquet Resonances in a Driven Three-Well System (2022)
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Li, L., Wang, B., & Li, W. (2022). Integer and Fractional Floquet Resonances in a Driven Three-Well System. Photonics, 9(10), Article 738. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9100738

We investigate Floquet dynamics of a particle held in a three-well system driven by a two-frequency field and identify integer and fractional photon resonances due to the dual-frequency driving. It is found that pairs of photon-assisted tunneling nea... Read More about Integer and Fractional Floquet Resonances in a Driven Three-Well System.

Dephasing effect of Rydberg states on trap loss spectroscopy of cold atoms (2022)
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Cao, Y., Yang, W., Zhang, H., Jing, M., Li, W., Zhang, L., …Jia, S. (2022). Dephasing effect of Rydberg states on trap loss spectroscopy of cold atoms. Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 39(8), 2032-2036. https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.459064

In this paper, we investigate the asymmetry of trap loss spectra of ultracold atoms during the excitation of Rydberg states. It is shown that the profile of a trap loss spectrum is affected by the density of Rydberg atoms as well as the dephasing rat... Read More about Dephasing effect of Rydberg states on trap loss spectroscopy of cold atoms.

Fast spin squeezing by distance-selective long-range interactions with Rydberg molecule dressing (2022)
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Wu, H., Lin, X. Y., Ding, Z. X., Zheng, S. B., Lesanovsky, I., & Li, W. (2022). Fast spin squeezing by distance-selective long-range interactions with Rydberg molecule dressing. Science China Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy, 65(8), Article 280311. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-022-1910-0

We propose a Rydberg molecule dressing scheme to create strong and long-ranged interactions at selective distances. This is achieved through laser coupling ground-state atoms off-resonantly to an attractive molecular curve of two interacting Rydberg... Read More about Fast spin squeezing by distance-selective long-range interactions with Rydberg molecule dressing.

Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption of strontium triplet states in a weak microwave field (2022)
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Zhou, Y., Yan, D., & Li, W. (2022). Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption of strontium triplet states in a weak microwave field. Physical Review A, 105(5), Article 053714. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.105.053714

We study theoretically laser excitation of Rydberg triplet states of strontium atoms in the presence of weak microwave (MW) fields. Starting from the ground state 5s21S0, the Rydberg excitation is realized through the metastable, triplet 5s5p3P1 stat... Read More about Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption of strontium triplet states in a weak microwave field.

Coherent ground-state transport of neutral atoms (2022)
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Li, X. X., You, J. B., Shao, X. Q., & Li, W. (2022). Coherent ground-state transport of neutral atoms. Physical Review A, 105(3), Article 032417. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.105.032417

Quantum state transport is an important way to study the energy or information flow. By combining the unconventional Rydberg pumping mechanism and the diagonal form of van der Waals interactions, we construct a theoretical model via second-order pert... Read More about Coherent ground-state transport of neutral atoms.

BCS-BEC crossover of ultracold ions driven by density-dependent short-range interactions in a quantum plasma (2021)
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Zhang, Y., Wang, Y., Jiang, W., & Li, W. (2021). BCS-BEC crossover of ultracold ions driven by density-dependent short-range interactions in a quantum plasma. Physical Review A, 104(6), Article 063312. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.104.063312

We study theoretically a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) to Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) crossover of two-species ions in a three-dimensional quantum plasma at zero temperature. Central to this crossover is an effective short-ranged, attractive int... Read More about BCS-BEC crossover of ultracold ions driven by density-dependent short-range interactions in a quantum plasma.

Systematic-Error-Tolerant Multiqubit Holonomic Entangling Gates (2021)
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Wu, J., Wang, Y., Han, J., Jiang, Y., Song, J., Xia, Y., …Li, W. (2021). Systematic-Error-Tolerant Multiqubit Holonomic Entangling Gates. Physical Review Applied, 16(6), Article 064031. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.064031

Quantum holonomic gates hold built-in resilience to local noises and provide a promising approach for implementing fault-tolerant quantum computation. We propose to realize high-fidelity holonomic (N + 1)-qubit controlled gates using Rydberg atoms co... Read More about Systematic-Error-Tolerant Multiqubit Holonomic Entangling Gates.

Hyperchaos in a bose-hubbard chain with rydberg-dressed interactions (2021)
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McCormack, G., Nath, R., & Li, W. (2021). Hyperchaos in a bose-hubbard chain with rydberg-dressed interactions. Photonics, 8(12), Article 554. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics8120554

We study the chaos and hyperchaos of Rydberg-dressed Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) in a one-dimensional optical lattice. Due to the long-range, soft-core interaction between the dressed atoms, the dynamics of the BECs are described by the extended... Read More about Hyperchaos in a bose-hubbard chain with rydberg-dressed interactions.

Multipolar Fermi-surface deformation in a Rydberg-dressed Fermi gas with long-range anisotropic interactions (2021)
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Zhou, Y., Nath, R., Wu, H., Lesanovsky, I., & Li, W. (2021). Multipolar Fermi-surface deformation in a Rydberg-dressed Fermi gas with long-range anisotropic interactions. Physical Review A, 104(6), Article L061302. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.104.l061302

We study theoretically the deformation of the Fermi surface (FS) of a three-dimensional gas of Rydberg-dressed 6Li atoms. The laser dressing to high-lying Rydberg D states results in angle-dependent soft-core-shaped interactions whose anisotropy is d... Read More about Multipolar Fermi-surface deformation in a Rydberg-dressed Fermi gas with long-range anisotropic interactions.

Dipole-dipole-interaction-driven antiblockade of two Rydberg atoms (2021)
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Su, S. L., & Li, W. (2021). Dipole-dipole-interaction-driven antiblockade of two Rydberg atoms. Physical Review A, 104(3), Article 033716. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.104.033716

Resonant laser excitation of multiple Rydberg atoms are prohibited, leading to Rydberg blockade, when the long-range van der Waals interactions are stronger than the laser-atom coupling. Rydberg blockade can be violated, i.e., simultaneous excitation... Read More about Dipole-dipole-interaction-driven antiblockade of two Rydberg atoms.

Observation of blackbody radiation enhanced superradiance in ultracold Rydberg gases (2021)
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Hao, L., Bai, Z., Bai, J., Bai, S., Jiao, Y., Huang, G., …Jia, S. (2021). Observation of blackbody radiation enhanced superradiance in ultracold Rydberg gases. New Journal of Physics, 23(8), Article 083017. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac136c

An ensemble of excited atoms can synchronize emission of light collectively in a process known as superradiance when its characteristic size is smaller than the wavelength of emitted photons. The underlying superradiance depends strongly on electroma... Read More about Observation of blackbody radiation enhanced superradiance in ultracold Rydberg gases.

Exploring the Many-Body Dynamics Near a Conical Intersection with Trapped Rydberg Ions (2021)
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Gambetta, F. M., Zhang, C., Hennrich, M., Lesanovsky, I., & Li, W. (2021). Exploring the Many-Body Dynamics Near a Conical Intersection with Trapped Rydberg Ions. Physical Review Letters, 126(23), Article 233404. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.126.233404

Conical intersections between electronic potential energy surfaces are paradigmatic for the study of nonadiabatic processes in the excited states of large molecules. However, since the corresponding dynamics occurs on a femtosecond timescale, their i... Read More about Exploring the Many-Body Dynamics Near a Conical Intersection with Trapped Rydberg Ions.

Adiabatic sensing technique for optimal temperature estimation using trapped ions (2021)
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Kirkova, A. V., Li, W., & Ivanov, P. A. (2021). Adiabatic sensing technique for optimal temperature estimation using trapped ions. Physical Review Research, 3, Article 013244. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.3.013244

We propose an adiabatic method for optimal phonon temperature estimation using trapped ions which can be operated beyond the Lamb-Dicke regime. The quantum sensing technique relies on a time-dependent red-sideband transition of phonon modes, describe... Read More about Adiabatic sensing technique for optimal temperature estimation using trapped ions.

Population trapping in a pair of periodically driven Rydberg atoms (2021)
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Mallavarapu, S. K., Niranjan, A., Li, W., Wüster, S., & Nath, R. (2021). Population trapping in a pair of periodically driven Rydberg atoms. Physical Review A, 103(2), Article 023335. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.103.023335

We study the population trapping extensively in a periodically driven Rydberg pair. The periodic modulation of the atom-light detuning effectively suppresses the Rabi couplings and, together with Rydberg-Rydberg interactions, leads to the state-depen... Read More about Population trapping in a pair of periodically driven Rydberg atoms.

Emergence and control of complex behaviors in driven systems of interacting qubits with dissipation (2021)
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Andreev, A. V., Balanov, A. G., Fromhold, T. M., Greenaway, M. T., Hramov, A. E., Li, W., …Zagoskin, A. M. (2021). Emergence and control of complex behaviors in driven systems of interacting qubits with dissipation. npj Quantum Information, 7(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-020-00339-1

Progress in the creation of large scale, artificial quantum coherent structures demands the investigation of their nonequilibrium dynamics when strong interactions, even between remote parts, are non-perturbative. Analysis of multiparticle quantum co... Read More about Emergence and control of complex behaviors in driven systems of interacting qubits with dissipation.

Self-Induced Transparency in Warm and Strongly Interacting Rydberg Gases (2020)
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Bai, Z., Adams, C. S., Huang, G., & Li, W. (2020). Self-Induced Transparency in Warm and Strongly Interacting Rydberg Gases. Physical Review Letters, 125(26), Article 263605. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.263605

We study dispersive optical nonlinearities of short pulses propagating in high number density, warm atomic vapors where the laser resonantly excites atoms to Rydberg P states via a single-photon transition. Three different regimes of the light-atom i... Read More about Self-Induced Transparency in Warm and Strongly Interacting Rydberg Gases.

Nonlinear dynamics of Rydberg-dressed Bose-Einstein condensates in a triple-well potential (2020)
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McCormack, G., Nath, R., & Li, W. (2020). Nonlinear dynamics of Rydberg-dressed Bose-Einstein condensates in a triple-well potential. Physical Review A, 102(6), Article 063329. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.102.063329

We study nonlinear dynamics of Rydberg-dressed Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) trapped in a triple-well potential in the semiclassical limit. The Rydberg-dressed BECs experience a long-range soft-core interaction, giving rise to strong nearest- and... Read More about Nonlinear dynamics of Rydberg-dressed Bose-Einstein condensates in a triple-well potential.