Engineered samples of Ultracold Rydberg Atoms

本实验研究的重点是探索超冷气体中偶极-偶极长程相互作用耦合的能量输运。 拟议的实验将探索能量通过里德伯原子样品的扩散。 这项工作涉及到几个实验提出或目前正在进行的超冷基态原子和分子。所有这些实验的重点是各向异性势对多体系统动力学的影响，目的是深入了解凝聚态系统，等离子体系统和超冷气体。 拟议的实验将建立在先前的工作基础上，通过创建空间结构化的里德堡态样本，并使用该小组最近建造的空间敏感探测器探索能量的空间再分布。 还将进行实验的计算分析和建模。 这项工作的更广泛影响是与超冷气体研究和凝聚态物理学的联系，以及对布林莫尔学院研究生和女学生本科生研究的教育影响。

This experiment research project focuses on an exploration of energy transport in ultracold gases coupled by long range dipole-dipole interactions. The proposed experiments will explore the diffusion of energy through a sample of Rydberg atoms. This work is related to several experiments proposed or currently underway in ultracold ground-state atoms and molecules. The focus of all of these experiments is on the impact of nonisotropic potentials on the dynamics of many-body systems with the goal of gaining insight into condensed-matter systems, plasma systems, and ultracold gases. The proposed experiments will build on prior work by creating spatially structured samples of Rydberg states and exploring the spatial redistribution of the energy using a spatially sensitive detector which the group has recently constructed. Computational analysis and modeling of the experiments will also be performed. The broader impact of this work is in its connection to ultracold gas studies and condensed matter physics, and in its educational impact on graduate students and the undergraduate research of women students at Bryn Mawr College.