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Professor IGOR LESANOVSKY's Outputs (132)

Reaching the quantum Hall regime with rotating Rydberg-dressed atoms (2020)
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Burrello, M., Lesanovsky, I., & Trombettoni, A. (2020). Reaching the quantum Hall regime with rotating Rydberg-dressed atoms. Physical Review Research, 2(2), Article 023290. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.2.023290

Despite the striking progress in the field of quantum gases, one of their much anticipated applications—the simulation of quantum Hall states—remains elusive: all experimental approaches so far have failed in reaching a sufficiently small ratio betwe... Read More about Reaching the quantum Hall regime with rotating Rydberg-dressed atoms.

Nonequilibrium Quantum Many-Body Rydberg Atom Engine (2020)
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Carollo, F., Gambetta, F. M., Brandner, K., Garrahan, J. P., & Lesanovsky, I. (2020). Nonequilibrium Quantum Many-Body Rydberg Atom Engine. Physical Review Letters, 124(17), Article 170602. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.170602

The standard approach to quantum engines is based on equilibrium systems and on thermo-dynamic transformations between Gibbs states. However, non-equilibrium quantum systems offer enhanced experimental flexibility in the control of their parameters a... Read More about Nonequilibrium Quantum Many-Body Rydberg Atom Engine.

Submicrosecond entangling gate between trapped ions via Rydberg interaction (2020)
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Zhang, C., Pokorny, F., Hennrich, M., Li, W., Lesanovsky, I., Higgins, G., & Pöschl, A. (2020). Submicrosecond entangling gate between trapped ions via Rydberg interaction. Nature, 580(7803), 345-349. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2152-9

© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. Generating quantum entanglement in large systems on timescales much shorter than the coherence time is key to powerful quantum simulation and computation. Trapped ions are amo... Read More about Submicrosecond entangling gate between trapped ions via Rydberg interaction.

Collectively enhanced chiral photon emission from an atomic array near a nanofiber (2020)
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Jones, R., Buonaiuto, G., Lang, B., Lesanovsky, I., & Olmos, B. (2020). Collectively enhanced chiral photon emission from an atomic array near a nanofiber. Physical Review Letters, 124(9), Article 093601. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.093601

Emitter ensembles interact collectively with the radiation field. In the case of a one-dimensional array of atoms near a nanofiber, this collective light-matter interaction does not only lead to an increased photon coupling to the guided modes within... Read More about Collectively enhanced chiral photon emission from an atomic array near a nanofiber.

Dynamics of strongly coupled disordered dissipative spin-boson systems (2020)
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Fiorelli, E., Rotondo, P., Carollo, F., Marcuzzi, M., & Lesanovsky, I. (2020). Dynamics of strongly coupled disordered dissipative spin-boson systems. Physical Review Research, 2(1), Article 013198. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.2.013198

Spin-boson Hamiltonians are an effective description for numerous quantum few-and many-body systems such as atoms coupled to cavity modes, quantum electrodynamics in circuits and trapped ion systems. While reaching the limit of strong coupling is pos... Read More about Dynamics of strongly coupled disordered dissipative spin-boson systems.

Engineering non-binary Rydberg interactions via electron-phonon coupling (2020)
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Gambetta, F. M., Li, W., Schmidt-Kaler, F., & Lesanovsky, I. (2020). Engineering non-binary Rydberg interactions via electron-phonon coupling. Physical Review Letters, 124(4), Article 043402. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.043402

Coupling electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom of Rydberg atoms held in optical tweezers arrays offers a flexible mechanism for creating and controlling atom-atom interactions. We find that the state-dependent coupling between Rydberg atoms a... Read More about Engineering non-binary Rydberg interactions via electron-phonon coupling.

Classical stochastic discrete time crystals (2019)
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Gambetta, F. M., Carollo, F., Lazarides, A., Lesanovsky, I., & Garrahan, J. P. (2019). Classical stochastic discrete time crystals. Physical Review E, 100(6), Article 060105(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.100.060105

© 2019 American Physical Society. We describe a general and simple paradigm for discrete time crystals (DTCs), systems with a stable subharmonic response to an external driving field, in a classical thermal setting. We consider, specifically, an Isin... Read More about Classical stochastic discrete time crystals.

Dynamical creation and detection of entangled many-body states in a chiral atom chain (2019)
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Buonaiuto, G., Jones, R., Olmos Sanchez, B., & Lesanovsky, I. (2019). Dynamical creation and detection of entangled many-body states in a chiral atom chain. New Journal of Physics, 21(11), Article 113021. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab4f50

Open quantum systems with chiral interactions can be realized by coupling atoms to guided radiation modes in photonic waveguides or optical fibres. In their steady state these systems can feature intricate many-body phases such as entangled dark stat... Read More about Dynamical creation and detection of entangled many-body states in a chiral atom chain.

Shuttling of Rydberg ions for fast entangling operations (2019)
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VOGEL, J., LI, W., MOKHBERI, A., LESANOVSKY, I., & SCHMIDT-KALER, F. (2019). Shuttling of Rydberg ions for fast entangling operations. Physical Review Letters, 123(15), Article 153603. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.153603

We introduce a scheme to entangle Rydberg ions in a linear ion crystal, using the high electric polarizability of the Rydberg electronic states in combination with mutual Coulomb coupling of ions that establishes common modes of motion. After laser i... Read More about Shuttling of Rydberg ions for fast entangling operations.

Numerical Simulation of Critical Dissipative Non-Equilibrium Quantum Systems with an Absorbing State (2019)
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Gillman, E., Carollo, F., & Lesanovsky, I. (2019). Numerical Simulation of Critical Dissipative Non-Equilibrium Quantum Systems with an Absorbing State. New Journal of Physics, 21, Article 093064. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab43b0

The simulation of out-of-equilibrium dissipative quantum many body systems is a problem of fundamental interest to a number of fields in physics, ranging from condensed matter to cosmology. For unitary systems, tensor network methods have proved succ... Read More about Numerical Simulation of Critical Dissipative Non-Equilibrium Quantum Systems with an Absorbing State.

Critical behavior of the quantum contact process in one dimension (2019)
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Carollo, F., Gillman, E., Weimer, H., & Lesanovsky, I. (2019). Critical behavior of the quantum contact process in one dimension. Physical Review Letters, 123(10), Article 100604. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.100604

The contact process is a paradigmatic classical stochastic system displaying critical behavior even in one dimension. It features a non-equilibrium phase transition into an absorbing state that has been widely investigated and shown to belong to the... Read More about Critical behavior of the quantum contact process in one dimension.

Dressed dense atomic gases (2019)
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Lesanovsky, I., Olmos, B., Guerin, W., & Kaiser, R. (2019). Dressed dense atomic gases. Physical Review A, 100(2), Article 021401(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.100.021401

The interaction between atomic transition dipoles and photons leads to the formation of many-body states with collective dissipation and long-ranged interactions. Here, we put forward and explore a scenario in which a dense atomic gas — where the sep... Read More about Dressed dense atomic gases.

Physical swap dynamics, shortcuts to relaxation, and entropy production in dissipative Rydberg gases (2019)
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Gutiérrez, R., Garrahan, J. P., & Lesanovsky, I. (2019). Physical swap dynamics, shortcuts to relaxation, and entropy production in dissipative Rydberg gases. Physical Review E, 100(1), Article 012110. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.100.012110

Dense Rydberg gases are out-of-equilibrium systems where strong density-density interactions give rise to effective kinetic constraints. They cause dynamic arrest associated with highly constrained many-body configurations, leading to slow relaxation... Read More about Physical swap dynamics, shortcuts to relaxation, and entropy production in dissipative Rydberg gases.

Localization in spin chains with facilitation constraints and disordered interactions (2019)
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Ostmann, M., Marcuzzi, M., Garrahan, J. P., & Lesanovsky, I. (2019). Localization in spin chains with facilitation constraints and disordered interactions. Physical Review A, 99(6), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.060101

Quantum many-body systems with kinetic constraints exhibit intriguing relaxation dynamics. Recent experimental progress in the field of cold atomic gases offers a handle for probing collective behavior of such systems, in particular for understanding... Read More about Localization in spin chains with facilitation constraints and disordered interactions.

Coherence, entanglement, and quantumness in closed and open systems with conserved charge, with an application to many-body localization (2019)
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Macieszczak, K., Levi, E., Macrì, T., Lesanovsky, I., & Garrahan, J. P. (2019). Coherence, entanglement, and quantumness in closed and open systems with conserved charge, with an application to many-body localization. Physical Review A, 99(5), Article 052354. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.99.052354

While the scaling of entanglement in a quantum system can be used to distinguish many-body quantum phases, it is usually hard to quantify the amount of entanglement in mixed states of open quantum systems, while measuring entanglement experimentally,... Read More about Coherence, entanglement, and quantumness in closed and open systems with conserved charge, with an application to many-body localization.

Synthetic lattices, flat bands and localization in Rydberg quantum simulators (2019)
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Ostmann, M., Marcuzzi, M., Minář, J., & Lesanovsky, I. (2019). Synthetic lattices, flat bands and localization in Rydberg quantum simulators. Quantum Science and Technology, 4(2), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/aaf29d

© 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd. The most recent manifestation of cold Rydberg atom quantum simulators that employs tailored optical tweezer arrays enables the study of many-body dynamics under so-called facilitation conditions. We show how the facilitatio... Read More about Synthetic lattices, flat bands and localization in Rydberg quantum simulators.

Singularities in large deviations of work in quantum quenches (2018)
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Rotondo, P., Minář, J., Garrahan, J. P., Lesanovsky, I., & Marcuzzi, M. (2018). Singularities in large deviations of work in quantum quenches. Physical Review B, 98(18), Article 184303. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.98.184303

We investigate large deviations of the work performed in a quantum quench across two different phases separated by a quantum critical point, using as an example the Dicke model quenched from its superradiant to its normal phase. We extract the distri... Read More about Singularities in large deviations of work in quantum quenches.

A terahertz-driven non-equilibrium phase transition in a room temperature atomic vapour (2018)
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Wade, C., Marcuzzi, M., Levi, E., Kondo, J., Lesanovsky, I., Adams, C., & Weatherill, K. (2018). A terahertz-driven non-equilibrium phase transition in a room temperature atomic vapour. Nature Communications, 9, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05597-4

There are few demonstrated examples of phase transitions that may be driven directly by terahertz frequency electric fields, and those that are known require field strengths exceeding 1 MV cm−1. Here we report a non-equilibrium phase transition drive... Read More about A terahertz-driven non-equilibrium phase transition in a room temperature atomic vapour.

Glassy dynamics due to a trajectory phase transition in dissipative Rydberg gases (2018)
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Pérez-Espigares, C., Lesanovsky, I., Garrahan, J. P., & Gutiérrez, R. (2018). Glassy dynamics due to a trajectory phase transition in dissipative Rydberg gases. Physical Review A, 98(2), https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.98.021804

The physics of highly excited Rydberg atoms is governed by blockade or exclusion interactions that hinder the excitation of atoms in the proximity of a previously excited one. This leads to cooperative effects and a relaxation dynamics displaying spa... Read More about Glassy dynamics due to a trajectory phase transition in dissipative Rydberg gases.