Many-Body Physics with Individually-Controlled Rydberg Atoms

Abstract

Over the last decade, systems of individually-controlled neutral atoms, interacting with each other when excited to Rydberg states, have emerged as a promising platform for quantum simulation of many-body problems, in particular spin systems. Here, we review the techniques underlying quantum gas microscopes and arrays of optical tweezers used in these experiments, explain how the different types of interactions between Rydberg atoms allow a natural mapping onto various quantum spin models, and describe recent results that were obtained with this platform to study quantum many-body physics.

14 pages, 6 figures, 115 references. Invited review in Nature Physics. This is the manuscript as initially submitted; there are only very minor changes in the published version

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• Quantum computing with neutral atoms
• Local quench spectroscopy of many-body quantum systems
• Relaxation of the collective magnetization of a dense 3D array of interacting dipolar S=3 atoms
• Assembled arrays of Rydberg-interacting atoms
• Long range vortex configurations in generalized models with the Maxwell or Chern-Simons dynamics
• Strong zero-field Förster resonances in K-Rb Rydberg systems