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Frontiers in Optics

Ultrafast Coherent Control of an Ultracold Rydberg Gas

Kenji Ohmori

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations
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Abstract

We have developed spatiotemporal coherent-control with precisions on the picometer spatial and attosecond temporal scales. Here we apply this high-precision coherent control to quantum many-body systems of ultracold Rydberg atoms.
DOI
10.1364/ls.2013.lth2g.1

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