Enhanced Rydberg Blockade through RF-tuned Förster Resonance
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| author | Palm, Lukas Li, Bowen Feng, Yiming Cady Jürgensen, Marius Simon, Jon |
| author_facet | Palm, Lukas Li, Bowen Feng, Yiming Cady Jürgensen, Marius Simon, Jon |
| contents | Enhancing interactions between Rydberg atoms is a key challenge in contemporary quantum technologies. Stronger interactions enable faster Rydberg gates in digital processors and larger entangled states in analog simulation. Achieving the same interaction strength at lower principal quantum number addresses current constraints in available Rabi frequency and field sensitivity in large scale tweezer or cavity QED experiments. Here, we demonstrate a new technique using AC Stark shifts from a microwave drive to tune into a Förster resonance, thereby modifying the interaction scaling with distance from $1/R^6$ to $1/R^3$. We validate enhanced Rydberg interactions (in strength and range) by probing cavity Rydberg polariton blockade at $n=44$ in $^{87}$Rb, improving from $g^{(2)}(0) = 1.0 (1)$ in the Van-der-Waals regime to $g^{(2)}(0) = 0.38 (1)$ in the dipolar regime on the Förster resonance. Importantly, our technique allows minimal shifts of the original Rydberg state, suppressing detuning errors in gate protocols while maintaining quadratic insensitivity to DC electric fields. |
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| spellingShingle | Enhanced Rydberg Blockade through RF-tuned Förster Resonance Palm, Lukas Li, Bowen Feng, Yiming Cady Jürgensen, Marius Simon, Jon Atomic Physics Quantum Gases Enhancing interactions between Rydberg atoms is a key challenge in contemporary quantum technologies. Stronger interactions enable faster Rydberg gates in digital processors and larger entangled states in analog simulation. Achieving the same interaction strength at lower principal quantum number addresses current constraints in available Rabi frequency and field sensitivity in large scale tweezer or cavity QED experiments. Here, we demonstrate a new technique using AC Stark shifts from a microwave drive to tune into a Förster resonance, thereby modifying the interaction scaling with distance from $1/R^6$ to $1/R^3$. We validate enhanced Rydberg interactions (in strength and range) by probing cavity Rydberg polariton blockade at $n=44$ in $^{87}$Rb, improving from $g^{(2)}(0) = 1.0 (1)$ in the Van-der-Waals regime to $g^{(2)}(0) = 0.38 (1)$ in the dipolar regime on the Förster resonance. Importantly, our technique allows minimal shifts of the original Rydberg state, suppressing detuning errors in gate protocols while maintaining quadratic insensitivity to DC electric fields. |
| title | Enhanced Rydberg Blockade through RF-tuned Förster Resonance |
| topic | Atomic Physics Quantum Gases |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07958 |