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20142026
most citedDemonstration of a strong Rydberg blockade in three-atom systems with anisotropic interactions

131 citations · 274 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

quant-ph2026

TetrisCNN for interpretable detection of phases of matter from experimental quantum simulator data

Kacper Cybiński, Björn van Zwol, James Enouen +5

Detecting phases of matter in general relies on identifying the correct order parameter - a task that remains notoriously difficult for unknown transitions and traditionally is gui…

quant-ph2026

Strategic Plan for Neutral Atom Quantum Computation

Adrian J. Menssen, Tout Wang, Michael Gullans +53

We present a strategic plan for neutral atom quantum computation, bringing together hardware development and theory advancements to achieve the goal of practical quantum advantage.…

physics.atom-ph2026

Defect-free arrays at the thousand-atom scale in a 4-K cryogenic environment

Desiree Lim, Hadriel Mamann, Grégoire Pichard +18

We report on a cryogenic platform at 4 K incorporating high numerical aperture optics for the generation of large-scale tweezers arrays, and compatible with Rydberg-state manipulat…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Measuring spectral functions of doped magnets with Rydberg tweezer arrays

Romain Martin, Mu Qiao, Ivan Morera +8

Spectroscopic measurements of single-particle spectral functions provide crucial insight into strongly correlated quantum matter by resolving the energy and spatial structure of el…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Observing weakly broken conservation laws in a dipolar Rydberg quantum spin chain

Cheng Chen, Luca Capizzi, Alice Marché +6

Integrable quantum many-body systems host families of extensive conservation laws, some of which are fragile: even infinitesimal perturbations can qualitatively alter their dynamic…

cond-mat.quant-gas2026

Dirac Spin Liquid Candidate in a Rydberg Quantum Simulator

Guillaume Bornet, Marcus Bintz, Cheng Chen +10

We experimentally investigate a frustrated spin-exchange antiferromagnet in a quantum simulator, composed of N = 114 dipolar Rydberg atoms arranged into a kagome array. Motivated b…

cond-mat.quant-gas2025

Connected correlations in cold atom experiments

Thomas Chalopin, Igor Ferrier-Barbut, Thierry Lahaye +2

The recent development of single-atom-resolved probes has made full counting statistics measurements accessible in quantum gas experiments. This capability provides access to high-…

quant-ph2025

Kinetically-induced bound states in a frustrated Rydberg tweezer array

Mu Qiao, Romain Martin, Lukas Homeier +8

Understanding how particles bind into composite objects is a ubiquitous theme in physics, from the formation of molecules to hadrons in quantum chromodynamics and the pairing of ch…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 2 cited

Probing spin-motion coupling of two Rydberg atoms by a Stern-Gerlach-like experiment

Gabriel Emperauger, Mu Qiao, Guillaume Bornet +7

We propose and implement a protocol to measure the state-dependent motion of Rydberg atoms induced by dipole-dipole interactions. Our setup enables simultaneous readout of both the…

physics.atom-ph2025★ 11 cited

Benchmarking direct and indirect dipolar spin-exchange interactions between two Rydberg atoms

Gabriel Emperauger, Mu Qiao, Guillaume Bornet +8

We report on the experimental characterization of various types of spin-exchange interactions between two individual atoms, where pseudo-spin degrees of freedom are encoded in diff…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Tomonaga-Luttinger Liquid Behavior in a Rydberg-encoded Spin Chain

Gabriel Emperauger, Mu Qiao, Cheng Chen +14

Quantum fluctuations can disrupt long-range order in one-dimensional systems, and replace it with the universal paradigm of the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid (TLL), a critical phase of…

quant-ph2025★ 20 cited

Realization of a doped quantum antiferromagnet with dipolar tunnelings in a Rydberg tweezer array

Mu Qiao, Gabriel Emperauger, Cheng Chen +13

Doping an antiferromagnetic Mott insulator is central to our understanding of a variety of phenomena in strongly-correlated electrons, including high-temperature superconductors. T…

quant-ph2024★ 11 cited

Spin-1 Haldane phase in a chain of Rydberg atoms

J. Mögerle, K. Brechtelsbauer, A. T. Gea-Caballero +7

We present a protocol to implement a spin-1 chain in Rydberg systems using three Rydberg states close to a Förster resonance. In addition to dipole-dipole interactions, strong van…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Homogeneous Magnetic Flux in Rydberg Lattices

Joseph Eix, Rukmani Bai, Thierry Lahaye +3

We present a method for generating homogeneous and tunable magnetic flux for bosonic particles in a lattice using Rydberg atoms. Our setup relies on Rydberg excitations hopping thr…

cond-mat.dis-nn2024★ 12 cited

Transformer neural networks and quantum simulators: a hybrid approach for simulating strongly correlated systems

Hannah Lange, Guillaume Bornet, Gabriel Emperauger +5

Owing to their great expressivity and versatility, neural networks have gained attention for simulating large two-dimensional quantum many-body systems. However, their expressivity…

physics.atom-ph2024★ 50 cited

Rearrangement of single atoms in a 2000-site optical tweezers array at cryogenic temperatures

Grégoire Pichard, Desiree Lim, Etienne Bloch +12

We report on the trapping of single rubidium atoms in large arrays of optical tweezers comprising up to 2088 sites in a cryogenic environment at 6 K. Our approach relies on the use…

quant-ph2024★ 32 cited

Enhancing a Many-body Dipolar Rydberg Tweezer Array with Arbitrary Local Controls

Guillaume Bornet, Gabriel Emperauger, Cheng Chen +8

We implement and characterize a protocol that enables arbitrary local controls in a dipolar atom array, where the degree of freedom is encoded in a pair of Rydberg states. Our appr…

physics.atom-ph2014★ 131 cited

Demonstration of a strong Rydberg blockade in three-atom systems with anisotropic interactions

Daniel Barredo, Sylvain Ravets, Henning Labuhn +5

We study the Rydberg blockade in a system of three atoms arranged in different 2D geometries (linear and triangular configurations). In the strong blockade regime, we observe high-…