Dr WEIBIN LI's Outputs (80)

Observation of blackbody radiation enhanced superradiance in ultracold Rydberg gases (2021)
Journal Article
Hao, L., Bai, Z., Bai, J., Bai, S., Jiao, Y., Huang, G., Zhao, J., Li, W., & 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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
Andreev, A. V., Balanov, A. G., Fromhold, T. M., Greenaway, M. T., Hramov, A. E., Li, W., Makarov, V. V., & 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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Optimized geometric quantum computation with a mesoscopic ensemble of Rydberg atoms (2020)
Journal Article
Guo, C.-Y., Yan, L.-L., Zhang, S., Su, S.-L., & Li, W. (2020). Optimized geometric quantum computation with a mesoscopic ensemble of Rydberg atoms. Physical Review A, 102(4), Article 042607. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.102.042607

We propose a nonadiabatic non-Abelian geometric quantum operation scheme to realize universal quantum computation with mesoscopic Rydberg atoms. A single control atom entangles a mesoscopic ensemble of target atoms through long-range interactions bet... Read More about Optimized geometric quantum computation with a mesoscopic ensemble of Rydberg atoms.

Long-Range Multibody Interactions and Three-Body Antiblockade in a Trapped Rydberg Ion Chain (2020)
Journal Article
Gambetta, F. M., Zhang, C., Hennrich, M., Lesanovsky, I., & Li, W. (2020). Long-Range Multibody Interactions and Three-Body Antiblockade in a Trapped Rydberg Ion Chain. Physical Review Letters, 125(13), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.125.133602

Trapped Rydberg ions represent a flexible platform for quantum simulation and information processing which combines a high degree of control over electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom. The possibility to individually excite ions to high-lying... Read More about Long-Range Multibody Interactions and Three-Body Antiblockade in a Trapped Rydberg Ion Chain.

Dynamical excitation of maxon and roton modes in a Rydberg-dressed Bose-Einstein condensate (2020)
Journal Article
McCormack, G., Nath, R., & Li, W. (2020). Dynamical excitation of maxon and roton modes in a Rydberg-dressed Bose-Einstein condensate. Physical Review A, 102(2), Article 023319. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.102.023319

We investigate the dynamics of a three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate of ultracold atomic gases with a soft-core shape long-range interaction, which is induced by laser dressing the atoms to a highly excited Rydberg state. For a homogeneous con... Read More about Dynamical excitation of maxon and roton modes in a Rydberg-dressed Bose-Einstein condensate.

Structural phase transitions of optical patterns in atomic gases with microwave-controlled Rydberg interactions (2020)
Journal Article
Shi, Z., Li, W., & Huang, G. (2020). Structural phase transitions of optical patterns in atomic gases with microwave-controlled Rydberg interactions. Physical Review A, 102(2), Article 023519. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.102.023519

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and formation of self-organized structures in nonlinear systems are intriguing and important phenomena in nature. Advancing such research to new nonlinear optical regimes is of much interest for both fundamental physics... Read More about Structural phase transitions of optical patterns in atomic gases with microwave-controlled Rydberg interactions.

Landau-Zener transitions and adiabatic impulse approximation in an array of two Rydberg atoms with time-dependent detuning (2020)
Journal Article
Niranjan, A., Li, W., & Nath, R. (2020). Landau-Zener transitions and adiabatic impulse approximation in an array of two Rydberg atoms with time-dependent detuning. Physical Review A, 101(6), https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.101.063415

We study the Landau-Zener (LZ) dynamics in a setup of two Rydberg atoms with time-dependent detuning, both linear and periodic, using both the exact numerical calculations as well as the method of adiabatic impulse approximation (AIA). By varying the... Read More about Landau-Zener transitions and adiabatic impulse approximation in an array of two Rydberg atoms with time-dependent detuning.

Submicrosecond entangling gate between trapped ions via Rydberg interaction (2020)
Journal Article
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.

Many-Body Chiral Edge Currents and Sliding Phases of Atomic Spin Waves in Momentum-Space Lattice (2020)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Cai, H., Wang, D.-W., Li, L., Yuan, J., & Li, W. (2020). Many-Body Chiral Edge Currents and Sliding Phases of Atomic Spin Waves in Momentum-Space Lattice. Physical Review Letters, 124(14), Article 140401. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.124.140401

Collective excitations (spinwaves) of long-lived atomic hyperfine states can be synthesized into a Bose-Hubbard model in momentum space. We explore many-body ground states and dynamics of a two-leg momentum-space lattice formed by two coupled hyperfi... Read More about Many-Body Chiral Edge Currents and Sliding Phases of Atomic Spin Waves in Momentum-Space Lattice.

Electromagnetically induced transparency of interacting Rydberg atoms with two-body dephasing (2020)
Journal Article
Yan, D., Wang, B., Bai, Z., & Li, W. (2020). Electromagnetically induced transparency of interacting Rydberg atoms with two-body dephasing. Optics Express, 28(7), 9677-9689. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.389247

We study electromagnetically induced transparency in a three-level ladder type configuration in ultracold atomic gases, where the upper level is an electronically highly excited Rydberg state. An effective distance dependent two-body dephasing can be... Read More about Electromagnetically induced transparency of interacting Rydberg atoms with two-body dephasing.

Phase synchronization in coupled bistable oscillators (2020)
Journal Article
Jessop, M. R., Li, W., & Armour, A. D. (2020). Phase synchronization in coupled bistable oscillators. Physical Review Research, 2(1), Article 013233. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.2.013233

We introduce a simple model system to study synchronization theoretically in quantum oscillators that are not just in limit-cycle states, but rather display a more complex bistable dynamics. Our oscillator model is purely dissipative, with a two-phot... Read More about Phase synchronization in coupled bistable oscillators.

Controlling the dynamical scale factor in a trapped atom Sagnac interferometer (2020)
Journal Article
Zhou, Y., Lesanovsky, I., Fernholz, T., & Li, W. (2020). Controlling the dynamical scale factor in a trapped atom Sagnac interferometer. Physical Review A, 101(1), Article 012517. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.101.012517

Sagnac interferometers with massive particles promise unique advantages in achieving high-precision measurements of rotation rates over their optical counterparts. Recent proposals and experiments are exploring nonballistic Sagnac interferometers whe... Read More about Controlling the dynamical scale factor in a trapped atom Sagnac interferometer.

Engineering non-binary Rydberg interactions via electron-phonon coupling (2020)
Journal Article
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.

Engineering NonBinary Rydberg Interactions via Phonons in an Optical Lattice (2020)
Journal Article
Gambetta, F., Li, W., Schmidt-Kaler, F., & Lesanovsky, I. (2020). Engineering NonBinary Rydberg Interactions via Phonons in an Optical Lattice. 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 tweezer arrays offers a flexible mechanism for creating and controlling atom-atom interactions. We find that the state-dependent coupling between Rydberg atoms an... Read More about Engineering NonBinary Rydberg Interactions via Phonons in an Optical Lattice.

Highly efficient vortex four-wave mixing in asymmetric semiconductor quantum wells (2020)
Journal Article
Qiu, J., Wang, Z., Ding, D., Li, W., & Yu, B. (2020). Highly efficient vortex four-wave mixing in asymmetric semiconductor quantum wells. Optics Express, 28(3), 2975-2986. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.379245

© 2020 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement Orbital angular momentum (OAM) is an important property of vortex light, which provides a valuable tool to manipulate the light-matter interaction in the st... Read More about Highly efficient vortex four-wave mixing in asymmetric semiconductor quantum wells.