Coherent versus incoherent excitation dynamics in dissipative many-body Rydberg systems
arXiv:1401.7260 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.89.033421
Abstract
We study the impact of dephasing on the excitation dynamics of a cloud of ultracold two-level Rydberg atoms for both resonant and off-resonant laser excitation, using the wave function Monte Carlo (MCWF) technique. We find that while for resonant laser driving, dephasing mainly leads to an increase of the Rydberg population and a decrease of the Mandel Q parameter, at off-resonant driving strong dephasing toggles between direct excitation of pairs of atoms and subsequent excitation of single atoms, respectively. These two excitation mechanisms can be directly quantified via the pair correlation function, which shows strong suppression of the two-photon resonance peak for strong dephasing. Consequently, qualitatively different dynamics arise in the excitation statistics for weak and strong dephasing in off-resonant excitation. Our findings show that time-resolved excitation number measurements can serve as a powerful tool to identify the dominating process in the system's excitation dynamics.
10 pages, 10 figures
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