A University at Buffalo physicist has received two U.S. Department of Defense grants totaling $1.1 million to study the quantum dynamics that could help advance neutral-atom quantum computing.

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Enrico Fermi investigated the Rydberg atom in the '30s, he never imagined that the giant atoms could form molecules. Later, in the '70s and '80s, theoretical physicist Chris ...

In an achievement that could help enable fast quantum computers, University of Michigan physicists have built a better Rydberg atom trap. Rydberg atoms are highly excited, nearly-ionized giants that ...

Researchers have discovered giant Rydberg molecules with a bond as large as a red blood cell. Determining how Rydberg molecules interact is important because Rydberg atoms are a key ingredient in atom ...

A Rydberg atom is an excited atom with one or more electrons that have a very high principal quantum number, n. The higher the value of n, the farther the electron is from the nucleus, on average.

Quantum Computer science legend, Dr John Preskill, just delivered a Q2B Quantum computer 2023 keynote talk on the state of Quantum Error correction with quantum ...

Rydberg atom–based electrometry exploits the exaggerated electric dipole moments of atoms in highly excited electronic states to achieve precise, traceable measurements of radio‐frequency and ...

How and when quantum computers will start operating still remains uncertain. Even so, there are various suggestions for systems they could use to compute with. One example is an ultra-cold ensemble of ...

As the charge of the ion deforms the Rydberg atom in a very specific way, the bond between the two particles emerges. Rubidium cloud cooled down close to the absolute zero To verify and study the ...