Lecture

Rydberg Atoms: Interactions & Blockade

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Description

This lecture delves into the physics of Rydberg atoms, focusing on their highly excited orbits and strong interactions. The van der Waals interaction between polarizable atoms is explained, leading to the concept of Rydberg blockade, where one atom in a highly excited state prevents the excitation of another. The lecture explores the scaling of interactions with principal quantum number and the conditions for blockade to occur, highlighting its significance in quantum information processing tasks.

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Theory of computation: Quantum computing

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