Interaction enhanced imaging of individual Rydberg atoms in dense gases.

We propose a new all-optical method to image individual Rydberg atoms embedded within dense gases of ground state atoms. The scheme exploits interaction-induced shifts on highly polarizable excited states of probe atoms, which can be spatially resolved via an electromagnetically induced transparency resonance. Using a realistic model, we show that it is possible to image individual Rydberg atoms with enhanced sensitivity and high resolution despite photon-shot noise and atomic density fluctuations. This new imaging scheme could be extended to other impurities such as ions, and is ideally suited to equilibrium and dynamical studies of complex many-body phenomena involving strongly interacting particles. As an example we study blockade effects and correlations in the distribution of Rydberg atoms optically excited from a dense gas.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2011-06-27

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

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  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.013002arXiv 1106.5443PMID 22304259
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