Rydberg Physics
Rydberg Physics
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里德伯物理
DOI：
10.1088/978-0-7503-1635-4ch1
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
M. Hoogerland
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作者：
R. Côté;T. Pattard;S. Hofferberth;X. Zhang;F. Dunning;S. Yoshida;A. Gauguet;K. Weatherill;A. Signoles;M. Hoogerland
里德伯物理学是温和的巨人的土地-高度激发的电子状态，平均而言，电子远离原子核。它们是用大量的能量创造出来的，有着不同寻常的大尺寸，并且寿命相对较长。它们之所以有用，是因为它们对环境极其敏感;以至于一个光子可以改变不止一个，而是几十个或几百个的行为，在我们可以在光学显微镜下很容易看到的距离内。无论里德伯态是在原子、分子还是固体中产生的，它们都具有共同的特征，这些特征可以通过高度激发的氢原子的物理描述来体现，其能级由里德伯公式描述。在这本电子书中，我们概述了里德伯系统的普遍性质，然后提出了一系列想法，这些想法表明它们与应用越来越相关，包括传感，单光子水平上的光操纵（量子光学）和工程单个量子之间的相互作用（量子模拟）。
Rydberg physics is the land of gentle giants — highly-excited electronic states where an electron is, on average, far from the nucleus. They are created with a lot of energy, have unusually large size and live relatively long. They are useful because they are extremely sensitive to their environment; so much so that a single photon of light can change the behaviour of not only one, but dozens or hundreds of them, over distances we can easily see under an optical microscope. Wherever Rydberg states are created — in atoms, molecules or solids — they all share common features that are exempli fi ed by the physical description of highly-excited hydrogen atoms, with energy levels described by the Rydberg formula. In this ebook, we outline the universal properties of Rydberg systems and then present a selection of ideas that demonstrate their increasing relevance to applications, including sensing, the manipulation of light on the single photon level (quantum optics) and in engineering the interactions between individual quanta (quantum simulation).