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most citedRealizing Su-Schrieffer-Heeger topological edge states in Rydberg-atom synthetic dimensions

112 citations · 223 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

physics.atom-ph2025

Anomalies in the rotational spectra of Sr ULRRM dimers

C. Wang, Y. Lu, A. Li +4

Anomalies in the rotational structure of Sr dimer ultralong-range Rydberg molecules (ULRRMs) created in a cold strontium gas by two-photon excitation via the interme…

physics.atom-ph2024

Elucidating the roles of collision energy and photon momentum transfer in the formation of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules

C. Wang, Y. Lu, S. K. Kanungo +3

Spectroscopic measurements of the rotational distribution of Sr and Sr 5sns ultralong-range Rydberg molecular dimers created via photoassociation in a cold ga…

quant-ph2024

Probing the topological phase transition in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model using Rydberg-atom synthetic dimensions

Yi Lu, Chuanyu Wang, Soumya K. Kanungo +2

We simulate the the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model using Rydberg-atom synthetic dimensions constructed, in a single atom, from a ladder of six neighboring Rydberg stat…

quant-ph2023

Wave packet dynamics and long-range tunneling within the SSH model using Rydberg-atom synthetic dimensions

Y. Lu, C. Wang, S. K. Kanungo +3

Rydberg-atom synthetic dimensions in the form of a lattice of n levels, , coupled through two-photon microwave excitation are used to examine dynamics with…

physics.atom-ph2023★ 14 cited

Measuring nonlocal three-body spatial correlations with Rydberg trimers in ultracold quantum gases

S. K. Kanungo, Y. Lu, F. B. Dunning +3

We measure nonlocal third-order spatial correlations in non-degenerate ultracold gases of bosonic (Sr) and spin-polarized fermionic (Sr) strontium through studies of…

physics.atom-ph2021★ 112 cited

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.…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 1 cited

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…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 11 cited

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…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 17 cited

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…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 10 cited

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)…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 35 cited

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…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 23 cited

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…