Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Direct observation of ultrafast many-body electron dynamics in an ultracold Rydberg gas

  • Nobuyuki Takei,
  • Christian Sommer,
  • Claudiu Genes,
  • Guido Pupillo,
  • Haruka Goto,
  • Kuniaki Koyasu,
  • Hisashi Chiba,
  • Matthias Weidemüller,
  • Kenji Ohmori

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13449
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Studying long-range interactions in the controlled environment of trapped ultracold gases can help our understanding of fundamental many-body physics. Here the authors excite a gas of Rydberg atoms with a ps laser pulse, demonstrating behaviour consistent with many-body correlations beyond mean-field.