Robert Löw, Hendrik Weimer, Johannes Nipper, Jonathan B. Balewski, Björn Butscher, Hans Peter Büchler, Tilman Pfau
We review experimental and theoretical tools to excite, study and understand
strongly interacting Rydberg gases. The focus lies on the excitation of dense
ultracold atomic samples close to, or within quantum degeneracy, to high lying
Rydberg states. The major part is dedicated to highly excited S-states of
Rubidium, which feature an isotropic van-der-Waals potential. Nevertheless, the
setup and the methods presented are also applicable to other atomic species
used in the field of laser cooling and atom trapping.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.2871
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