Abstract

Atoms in high-lying Rydberg states exhibit many remarkable features, including long lifetimes and giant polarizability resulting in strong, long-range interactions. Such systems are uniquely suited for simulating few- and many-body physics and for realizing quantum computers. After a brief outline of the Rydberg atom physics, I will describe several schemes for quantum simulations and information processing with laser controlled atoms.

Short CV

David Petrosyan is a Principal Researcher at the Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser of the Foundation for Research and Technology, FORTH, Greece. His research spans theoretical quantum optic and physical implementations of quantum computation and communication. Dr. Petrosyan has recently received the Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation, Germany, and is currently a Dale T. Mortensen Senior Fellow at the AIAS.

David Petrosyan's project at AIAS.

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