Group Seminar via Zoom: Rydberg atoms in ultracold gases - from electron to ion impurities
Florian Meinert, University of Stuttgart
Group meeting via video conference (Zoom)
Tuesday, October 13th, 09:00 (MEZ)
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Abstract:
I will report on our endeavor to control single Rydberg atoms immersed in degenerate atomic gases. Such Rydberg impurities allow us to study a rich plethora of effects resulting from the interaction of the Rydberg electron with the surrounding gas such as the formation and structure of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules. More recently, we have demonstrated that a Rydberg impurity can also serve as a precursor to generate a single low-energy ion via tailored photo- or field-ionization schemes. I will discuss how we control the produced ion with small electric fields in the absence of any trapping potentials. This allowed us to observe Rydberg blockade effects induced by a single charge and recently also to study diffusive transport of a single ion through a Bose Einstein condensate [1]. While the dynamics we study here is well captured by semi-classical Langevin collisions, our approach offers intriguing means to enter the elusive quantum regime for ion-atom scattering. In that context, I will finally discuss the status of a new apparatus equipped with a high-resolution ion microscope to study ionic quantum impurities [2].
[1] T. Dieterle, M. Berngruber, C. Hölzl, R. Löw, K. Jachymski, T. Pfau,
and F. Meinert, arXiv:2007.00309 (2020).
[2] C. Veit, N. Zuber, O. A. Herrera-Sancho, V. S. V. Anasuri, T.
Schmid, F. Meinert, R. Löw, and T. Pfau, arXiv:2008.08512 (2020).
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