We study the counterpart of Anderson localization in driven one-electron Rydberg atoms. By changing the initial Rydberg state at fixed microwave frequency and interaction time, we numerically monitor the crossover from Anderson localization to the photoeffect in the atomic ionization signal.

The 3psigma(u)D (3)Sigma(u) (+) Rydberg state of N(2) is studied experimentally using two high-resolution spectroscopic techniques. First, the forbidden D (3)Sigma(u) (+)-X (1)Sigma(g) (+) transition is observed for the first time via the (0,0) band of (14)N(2) and the (1,0) band of (15)N(2), using 1 extreme-ultraviolet +1 ultraviolet two-photon-ionization laser spectroscopy. Second, the Rydber...

A difference was observed in the reactivity of alcohols and ethers toward free electrons. Whereas the lowest core-excited state of the negative ion-a 2(n,3s2) Feshbach resonance-of the alcohols readily dissociates by losing a hydrogen atom, ethers show no observable signal from this resonance. This difference in reactivity has a parallel in the anomalous shapes and energies of the parent states...

Vertical excitation energies and oscillator strengths for several valence and Rydberg electronic states of vinyl, propen-1-yl, propen-2-yl, 1-buten-2-yl, and trans-2-buten-2-yl radicals are calculated using the equation-of-motion coupled cluster methods with single and double substitutions (EOM-CCSD). The ground and the lowest excited state (n <-- pi) equilibrium geometries are calculated using...

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Recent experiments @E. M. Spain et al., J. Chem. Phys 102, 24 ~1995!# discovered alignment effects in cross sections for near-resonant energy-transfer collisions of Xe atoms with Ca Rydberg atoms at a single mean relative velocity. A collaborative quantum-mechanical study @W. Isaacs and M. A. Morrison, Phys. Rev. A 57, R9 ~1998!# confirmed these findings and discovered pronounced oscillations i...

Atom chips are a promising candidate for a scalable architecture for quantum information processing provided a universal set of gates can be implemented with high fidelity. The difficult part in achieving universality is the entangling two-qubit gate. We consider a Rydberg phase gate for two atoms trapped on a chip and employ optimal control theory to find the shortest gate that still yields a ...

We implement high-efficiency coherent excitation to a Rydberg state using stimulated Raman adiabatic passage in a cold-atom electron and ion source. We achieve an efficiency of 60% averaged over the laser excitation volume with a peak efficiency of 82%, a 1.6 times improvement relative to incoherent pulsed-laser excitation. Using pulsed electric field ionization of the Rydberg atoms we create e...

We have performed calculations of two successive charge transfers in a geometry that could generate a beam of antihydrogen atoms (H̄) or reliably produce cold H̄ without having to reach extremely cold plasma temperatures. The basic idea is similar to that proposed by Hessels et al (1998 Phys. Rev. A 57 1668) except that the order of the charge transfers is reversed. A beam of highly-excited (Rydb...

We present experimental results on two-qubit Rydberg-blockade quantum gates and entanglement in a twodimensional qubit array. Without postselection against atom loss we achieve a Bell state fidelity of 0.73 ± 0.05. The experiments are performed in an array of single Cs atom qubits with a site to site spacing of 3.8 μm. Using the standard protocol for a Rydberg-blockade CZ gate together with sin...