https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60171-2
Regular Article
Signatures of strong interactions in Rydberg systems
1 INO-CNR, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi, Università di Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, 56127 Pisa, Italy
a e-mail: cqtmmv@nus.edu.sg
b Present address: Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 2, Singapore 117543, Singapore
c Present address: Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (UPR 3228, CNRS-UPS-UJF-INSA), 31400 Toulouse, France
d Present address: Scuola di Scienze e Tecnologie, Sezione di Fisica, Università di Camerino, 62032 (MC), Italy
Received: 1 June 2016
Revised: 11 August 2016
Published online: 19 December 2016
Strong interactions between Rydberg excitations in cold gases give rise to strong correlations within these samples. Here we present a series of techniques that allow to visualize such correlations either directly, by varying the degree of interaction between the excitations, or indirectly, through the analysis of the full counting statistics (FCS) of the excitation events. Combining the information obtained by both methods provides a more complete characterization of the system, and allows the study of the correlations emerging in the system as a consequence of the strongly interacting nature of Rydberg excitations.
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