Research report 2014 - Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Atomic giants in a new light: nonlinear light-matter-interactions in ultracold Rydberg gases
Authors
Pohl, Thomas
Departments
Komplexe Dynamik in kalten Gasen
Summary
The study of highly excited atoms has a long history in physics, starting from the early days of quantum mechanics to more recent developments of cavity-QED. In ultracold gases it is nowadays possible to precisely probe and utilize the remarkable properties of these atoms.