Darmstadt 2008 – scientific programme
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A: Fachverband Atomphysik
A 26: Posters: BECs, ultracold gases and plasmas
A 26.18: Poster
Thursday, March 13, 2008, 16:30–18:30, Poster C3
Trapped Rydberg Ions — •Markus Mueller1, Linmei Liang1,2, Igor Lesanovsky1, and Peter Zoller1 — 1Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, and Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria — 2Department of Physics, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China
We study Rydberg states of ions which are trapped in a linear Paul trap. In such trap the ions are confined by an electric quadrupole field and a ponderomotive force due to an oscillating quadrupole. Using a two-body approach in order to model the Rydberg ions we derive the Hamiltonian for Rydberg excitations in a linear ion crystal. We discuss the creation of strong state-dependent dipole-dipole interaction among the ions using microwave dressing of Rydberg states. This system offers the possibility to study Rydberg excitation dynamics of a mesoscopic ensemble in a well-structured environment and allows the implementation of strongly interacting spin models.