Magnetic trapping of ultracold Rydberg atoms in low angular momentum states

Details Magnetic trapping of ultracold Rydberg atoms in low angular momentum states Magnetic trapping of ultracold Rydberg atoms in low angular momentum states

2009-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/0906.0946v2

Phys. Rev. A 80, 053410 (2009)

Physics

Atomic Physics

13 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.80.053410

We theoretically investigate the quantum properties of nS, nP, and nD Rydberg atoms in a magnetic Ioffe-Pritchard trap. In particular, it is demonstrated that the two-body character of Rydberg atoms significantly alters the trapping properties opposed to point-like particles with identical magnetic moment. Approximate analytical expressions describing the resulting Rydberg trapping potentials are derived and their validity is confirmed for experimentally relevant field strengths by comparisons to numerical solutions of the underlying Schroedinger equation. In addition to the electronic properties, the center of mass dynamics of trapped Rydberg atoms is studied. In particular, we analyze the influence of a short-time Rydberg excitation, as required by certain quantum-information protocols, on the center of mass dynamics of trapped ground state atoms. A corresponding heating rate is derived and the implications for the purity of the density matrix of an encoded qubit are investigated.

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