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Physical Review A

Analysis of coherent dynamics of a Rydberg-atom quantum simulator

Hikaru Tamura, Tomotake Yamakoshi, Ken’ichi Nakagawa

Published Apr 28, 2020• 24 citations
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Abstract

Many-body dynamics of small Rydberg-atom systems in the presence of physical limitations and imperfections are investigated experimentally and compared to numerical results from a dissipative model. This study provides useful information for scaling up a quantum simulator within the Rydberg-atom platform.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.101.043421

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