Observation of collective decay dynamics of a single Rydberg superatom
Nina Stiesdal, Hannes Busche, Jan Kumlin, Kevin Kleinbeck, Hans Peter Büchler, Sebastian Hofferberth
Abstract
The authors study the emission of single photons from a collective atomic Rydberg excitation and observe variations in its decay rate that result from the collective state's internal coherent dynamics.
Topics & Concepts
SuperatomRydberg formulaAtomic physicsPhysicsExcitationDynamics (music)PhotonRydberg atomRydberg stateQuantum mechanicsElectronIonizationIonAcousticsCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesQuantum Information and CryptographyQuantum optics and atomic interactions