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Realizing Su-Schrieffer-Heeger topological edge states in Rydberg-atom synthetic dimensions
S. K. Kanungo, J. D. Whalen, Y. Lu +5
We demonstrate a platform for synthetic dimensions based on coupled Rydberg levels in ultracold atoms, and we implement the single-particle Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) Hamiltonian.…
Photoassociative Spectroscopy of Sr
J. C. Hill, W. Huie, P. Lunia +4
We demonstrate photoassociation (PA) of ultracold fermionic Sr atoms. The binding energies of a series of molecular states on the SP mol…
Loss rates for high-, , 5sns(S) Rydberg atoms excited in an Sr Bose-Einstein condensate
S. K. Kanungo, J. D. Whalen, Y. Lu +4
Measurements of the loss rates for strontium nS Rydberg atoms excited in a dense BEC are presented for values of principal quantum number in the range $49\lesssim n…
Heteronuclear Rydberg molecules
J. D. Whalen, S. K. Kanungo, Y. Lu +4
We report the creation of heteronuclear ultralong-range Rydberg-molecule dimers by excitation of minority atoms to Rydberg states () in a de…
Creation of vibrationally-excited ultralong-range Rydberg molecules in polarized and unpolarized cold gases of Sr
R. Ding, S. K. Kanungo, J. D. Whalen +4
Photoexcitation rates for creation of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules (ULRM) with 31 in both ground and excited vibrational levels in cold (~nK)…
Probing Nonlocal Spatial Correlations in Quantum Gases with Ultra-long-range Rydberg Molecules
J. D. Whalen, S. K. Kanungo, R. Ding +7
We present photo-excitation of ultra-long-range Rydberg molecules as a probe of spatial correlations in quantum gases. Rydberg molecules can be created with well-defined internucle…
Spectroscopy of triplet Rydberg states
R. Ding, J. D. Whalen, S. K. Kanungo +4
A combined experimental and theoretical spectroscopic study of high-, , triplet and Rydberg states in is pre…
Theory of excitation of Rydberg polarons in an atomic quantum gas
R. Schmidt, J. D. Whalen, R. Ding +8
We present a quantum many-body description of the excitation spectrum of Rydberg polarons in a Bose gas. The many-body Hamiltonian is solved with functional determinant theory, and…
Lifetimes of ultralong-range strontium Rydberg molecules in a dense BEC
J. D. Whalen, F. Camargo, R. Ding +5
The lifetimes and decay channels of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules created in a dense BEC are examined by monitoring the time evolution of the Rydberg population using field ion…
Creation of Rydberg Polarons in a Bose Gas
F. Camargo, R. Schmidt, J. D. Whalen +8
We report spectroscopic observation of Rydberg polarons in an atomic Bose gas. Polarons are created by excitation of Rydberg atoms as impurities in a strontium Bose-Einstein conden…
Critical Phenomena and Kibble-Zurek Scaling in the Long-Range Quantum Ising Chain
Daniel Jaschke, Kenji Maeda, Joseph D. Whalen +2
We investigate an extension of the quantum Ising model in one spatial dimension including long-range interactions in its statics and dynamics with possible applications f…
Lifetimes of ultra-long-range strontium Rydberg molecules
F. Camargo, J. D. Whalen, R. Ding +5
The lifetimes of the lower-lying vibrational states of ultralong-range strontium Rydberg molecules comprising one ground-state 5s2 1S0 atom and one Rydberg atom in the 5s38s 3S1 st…