Strongly correlated few-body states of Rydberg polaritons
(A08)
Subject Area
Optics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas
Term
since 2022
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 277625399
Engineered interaction between individual photons in a quantum nonlinear optical medium and its interplay with dissipation enable the control of light photon by photon and the creation of non-classical states of light on demand. In this project, we investigate strongly interacting Rydberg polaritons in an ultracold Ytterbium gas, where a strong and highly tunable effective interaction between individual photons is mediated via Rydberg-Rydberg interaction between single atoms. In this extreme limit of nonlinear optics, optical photons turn into a strongly correlated quantum few- to many-body open system with exquisite control over both coherent and dissipative properties.
DFG Programme
CRC/Transregios
