Rabi oscillations and excitation trapping in the coherent excitation of a mesoscopic frozen Rydberg gas

Markus Reetz-Lamour, Thomas Amthor, Johannes Deiglmayr +1

We demonstrate the coherent excitation of a mesoscopic ensemble of about 100 ultracold atoms to Rydberg states by driving Rabi oscillations from the atomic ground state. We employ…