ISBN 978-3-8439-3330-8

978-3-8439-3330-8, Reihe Physik

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Few-body quantum physics with strongly interacting Rydberg polaritons

167 Seiten, Dissertation Universität Stuttgart (2016), Softcover, A5

Zusammenfassung / Abstract

Recently, the combination of slow light polaritons with the strong interactions between Rydberg atoms has emerged as a promising system for inducing a strong interaction between photons. Potential applications range from the implementation of phase gate for photons, to single photon sources, as well as the generation of strongly correlated states of photons. From theoretical point of view, the many-body setup of propagating Rydberg polaritons is hard to describe, especially when polaritons are strongly interacting. In this dissertation we provide a novel theoretical framework to describe quantum optical nonlinearities in Rydberg-EIT systems and present the application of this framework for two experiments.