Subject：The rise and rise of Rydberg atoms
Speaker：Prof. Charles Stuart Adams
Emcee：Prof. Guoxiang Huang
Time：3:00pm, 16th Dec, 2020
Place：Optics Building B325/ Tencent Meeting ID：336 106 876
Abstract：
The Rydberg series provides us with remarkable tenability in terms of the transition wavelengths (from optical to microwave) and dipole moments (up to 1000s of Debye). This makes Rydberg atoms an extremely versatile platform for a range of applications from quantum computing to sensing. In this talk I will focus on two Rydberg projects in Durham: (i) terahertz imaging using Rydberg atoms [1], and (ii) quantum light-matter interfaces using Rydberg collective encoding [2].
[1] L. Downes et al. Phys Rev. X 10, 011027 (2020).
[2] N. L. R. Spong et al. arXiv:2010.11794
About the Speaker:
Charles Adams is Director of the Joint Quantum Centre, Durham University. He was educated at Oulder Hill Community School in Rochdale. He studied Physics at Hertford College, Oxford University. He obtained a Masters by Research from McMaster University in Canada followed by a PhD from Strathclyde University in Glasgow. After post doctoral work in Germany and the US, he began a research group at Durham in October 1995. His main interests are in experimental quantum optics, in particular light-matter interactions in strongly-interacting atomic systems. He was awarded the Thomson medal by the Institute of Physics (IOP) in 2014 and the Holweck Prize by the French Physical Society and IOP in 2020 for pioneering work on quantum optics.
