Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Nondestructive Rydberg atom counting with mesoscopic fields in a cavity.

P Maioli1, T Meunier, S Gleyzes

  • 1Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Département de Physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, F-75231 Paris CEDEX 05, France.

Physical Review Letters
|May 21, 2005
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Slowing Down a Coherent Superposition of Circular Rydberg States of Strontium.

Physical review letters·2024
Same author

Communication patterns in families affected by parental cancer from the healthy parents' perspective-process evaluation of the complex intervention Family-SCOUT.

Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer·2024
Same author

Experimental Analysis of Energy Transfers between a Quantum Emitter and Light Fields.

Physical review letters·2024
Same author

Array of Individual Circular Rydberg Atoms Trapped in Optical Tweezers.

Physical review letters·2023
Same author

Millisecond-Lived Circular Rydberg Atoms in a Room-Temperature Experiment.

Physical review letters·2023
Same author

Energetics of a Single Qubit Gate.

Physical review letters·2022
Same journal

Erratum: Bacterial Turbulence at Compressible Fluid Interfaces [Phys. Rev. Lett. 136, 138301 (2026)].

Physical review letters·2026
Same journal

Unveiling Light-Quark Yukawa Flavor Structure via Dihadron Fragmentation at Lepton Colliders.

Physical review letters·2026
Same journal

Adaptable Route to Fast Coherent State Transport via Bang-Bang-Bang Protocols.

Physical review letters·2026
Same journal

Topological Transition and Emergence of Elasticity of Dislocation in Skyrmion Lattice: Beyond Kittel's Magnetic-Polar Analogy.

Physical review letters·2026
Same journal

Pound-Drever-Hall Method for Superconducting-Qubit Readout.

Physical review letters·2026
Same journal

Coupling a ^{73}Ge Nuclear Spin to an Electrostatically Defined Quantum Dot in Silicon.

Physical review letters·2026
See all related articles

We developed a new method to count atoms precisely using Rydberg atoms and superconducting cavities. This technique advances quantum information processing and the creation of nonclassical states.

Area of Science:

  • Quantum optics
  • Atomic physics
  • Superconducting circuits

Background:

  • Rydberg atoms offer unique interactions for quantum applications.
  • Superconducting cavities provide high-quality environments for atom-field interactions.
  • Precise atom counting is crucial for quantum information processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present an efficient, state-selective, and nondemolition atom-counting procedure.
  • To utilize the dispersive interaction between circular Rydberg atoms and a mesoscopic field.
  • To enable advancements in quantum information processing and nonclassical state generation.

Main Methods:

  • Employing circular Rydberg atoms interacting with a mesoscopic field in a superconducting cavity.
  • Leveraging the state-dependent atomic index of refraction to shift the classical field phase.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Using a homodyne procedure to translate phase information to intensity.
  • Reading out the final field intensity with a mesoscopic atomic sample.

    • Main Results:

    • Demonstration of an efficient, state-selective, nondemolition atom-counting method.
    • Quantification of atom number via phase shifts in a mesoscopic field.
    • Successful readout of field intensity using a secondary atomic sample.

    Conclusions:

    • The presented atom-counting method is efficient and state-selective.
    • This technique shows promise for quantum information processing applications.
    • It facilitates the generation of nonclassical states with Rydberg atoms.