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Demonstration of strong Rydberg blockade in three-atom systems with anisotropic interactions

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We study the Rydberg blockade in a system of three atoms arranged in different 2D geometries (linear and triangular configurations). In the strong blockade regime, we observe high-contrast, coherent collective oscillations of the single excitation probability, and an almost perfect van der Waals blockade. Our data is consistent with a total population in doubly and triply excited states below 2%. In the partial blockade regime, we directly observe the anisotropy of the van der Waals interactions between $|nD\rangle$ Rydberg states in the triangular configuration. A simple model, that only uses independently measured two-body van der Waals interactions, fully reproduces the dynamics of the system without any adjustable parameter. These results are extremely promising for scalable quantum information processing and quantum simulation with neutral atoms.
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Daniel Barredo, Sylvain Ravets, Henning Labuhn, Lucas Béguin, Aline Vernier, et al.. Demonstration of strong Rydberg blockade in three-atom systems with anisotropic interactions. Physical Review Letters, 2014, 112, pp.183002. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.183002⟩. ⟨hal-00949959⟩
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