• DocumentCode
    2080276
  • Title

    Excitation suppression in an ultracold rydberg gas due to a local van der waals blockade

  • Author

    Eyler, E.E. ; Farooqi, S.M. ; Tong, D. ; Stanojevic, Jovica ; Krishnan, S. ; Zhang, Y.P. ; Côte, R. ; Gould, P.L.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Connecticut Univ., Storrs, CT
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    21-21 May 2004
  • Firstpage
    121
  • Lastpage
    122
  • Abstract
    We observe an excitation suppression effect due to van der Waals interactions between ultracold Rydberg atoms. The observed dependence of this effect on sample density suggests a viable blockade mechanism for realizing quantum gates
  • Keywords
    Rydberg states; laser cooling; van der Waals forces; Rydberg gas; excitation suppression; local van der Waals blockade; quantum gates; sample density; ultracold gas; van der Waals interactions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics Conference, 2004. (IQEC). International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-778-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1366673