Third International Workshop on Ultracold Rydberg Physics



2-5 December, 2018
Transamérica Prestige Beach Class International Hotel
Boa Viagem Beach, Recife, Brazil


Program

Sunday, December 2
   
   
15:45-16:30    Registration - Room "Boa Viagem 1"
16:30-16:40    Opening - Room "Boa Viagem 2"

    Chairperson: J. Shaffer
16:40-17:20    Probing the quench dynamics of antiferromagnetic correlations in a 2D quantum Ising spin system - Peter Schauss
17:20-17:40    Angular Dependence of Rydberg Atom Pair Interactions in a Blockaded Rb Gas - Akbar J. Jozani, James P. Shaffer, Luis F. Gonçalves, and Luis G Marcassa
17:40-18:00    Critical thermodynamics properties of weakly interacting Bose gases as modified by a harmonic confinement - I. Reyes-Ayala, F. J. Poveda-Cuevas, J. A. Seman, and V. Romero-Rochin

18:30-20:00    Reception

  
Monday, December 3
   
    Chairperson: I. Beterov
8:30-9:10    Entangling atomic qubits with Rydberg interactions - M. Saffman
9:10-9:30    Rydberg Atom Quantum Hybrid Systems - James P. Shaffer
9:30-9:50    New types of quantum memory in atomic ensembles - Daniel Felinto
9:50-10:10    Fast circularisation and optimal control of Rydberg atoms in Stark manifolds - S. Patsch, A. Larrouy, R. Richaud, J.-M. Raimond, M. Brune, S. Gleyzes, C. P. Koch
   
10:10-10:30    Coffee Break
   
    Chairperson: M. Saffman
10:30-11:10    Free-space QED with a single Rydberg superatom - S. Hofferberth
11:10-11:50   Three-body interactions of Rydberg atoms and their application to quantum information - I.I.Beterov, I.N.Ashkarin, D.B.Tretyakov, E.A.Yakshina, V.M.Entin, I.I.Ryabtsev, P.Cheinet, P.Pillet, M.Saffman
11:50-12:10    Rydberg Antenna at the Quantum Limit - Paul Kunz, Kevin Cox, David Meyer, Zac Castillo
12:10-12:30    High fidelity quantum state transfer in Rydberg systems - Tommaso Macri

   
12:30-14:00    Lunch
   
    Free afternoon and night
       

Tuesday, December 4   
   
    Chairperson: P. Kunz
8:30-9:10    Spin-Interaction Effects and Alignment of s-state Ultralong-range Rydberg Molecules - P. Schmelcher
9:10-9:50    Trilobites in random and regular environments - Jan M Rost
9:50-10:10   Spectroscopy of nD Rydberg-ground molecules in 87Rb and 85Rb - Jamie MacLennan, Georg Raithel, Yun-Jhih Chen
10:10-10:30 Two-electron R-matrix method in calculations of long-range Rydberg molecules at intermediate internuclear distances - Michal Tarana
   
10:30-10:50    Coffee Break
   
    Chairperson: J. M. Rost
10:50-11:30    Lots of Bosons and Fermions and one Rydberg atom - H. R. Sadeghpour
11:30-12:10    Electronic Structure of the Rydberg Triatomic Molecule: K(nl)-KRb(vN) - R. González-Férez, S. T. Rittenhouse, P. Schmelcher and H. R. Sadeghpour
11:10-12:30    Confining high- and low-field-seeking Rydberg atoms in time-varying electric fields - Adam Deller and Stephen D. Hogan
   
   
12:30-14:00    Lunch
   
    Chairperson: R. González-Férez
14:00-14:40    Placing single Rydberg atoms and ions into a BEC - Robert Löw
14:40-15:00    Rydberg Physics at Otago - Amita Bikram Deb and Niels Kjćrgaard
15:00-15:20    Towards a Precision Measurement of the Rydberg Constant Using Circular Rydberg Atoms - Andira Ramos, Ryan Cardman, Georg Raithel
   
15:20-15:40    Coffee Break
   
    Chairperson: R. Löw
15:40-16:00    Rydberg state ionization dynamics and tunnel ionization rates in strong electric fields - K. Gawlas and S. D. Hogan
16:00-16:20    Possible manifestations of quantum disordered dynamics in the arrested relaxation of a molecular plasma - Kevin Marroquin, Ruoxi Wang, Fernanda Banic V. Martins, Mahyad Aghigh, Kiara Grant, Xixi Qi, James Keller and Edward Grant
16:20-16:40    Light storage based on the external atomic degrees of freedom - J. P. Lopez, A. J. F Almeida, A. M. G. de Melo, D. Felinto, and J. W. R. Tabosa
   
19:00-23:30    Workshop Banquet - Cachaçaria Carvalheira

Wednesday , December 5   
     Chairperson: L. Marcassa   
9:00-9:40    Many-body physics with ultracold plasmas: Quenched randomness and localization - Ed Grant
9:40-10:00  Structure and Dynamics of Cold Single-Component Plasma - Michael A. Viray and Georg Raithel

10:00-10:20    Coffee Break
   
    Chairperson: T. Macri
10:20-11:00    Study of Rydberg blockade in thermal vapor - Ashok Mohapatra
Intrinsic Optical Bistability in a Rydberg Ensemble - Natalia R. de Melo, Christopher G.Wade, Nikola Sibalic, Jorge M. Kondo, Charles S. Adams, Kevin J. Weatherill
11:00-11:20    Lifetime measurement of nS, nD3/2 and nD5/2 Rb Rydberg states - Cristian A. Mojica Casique, Barbara F. Magnani, Luis G. Marcassa
      
   
12:00-14:00    Lunch