{"id":105004,"date":"2020-04-08T23:51:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/first-successful-laser-trapping-of-circular-rydberg-atoms"},"modified":"2020-04-08T23:51:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T06:51:57","slug":"first-successful-laser-trapping-of-circular-rydberg-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/first-successful-laser-trapping-of-circular-rydberg-atoms","title":{"rendered":"First successful laser trapping of circular Rydberg atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-successful-laser-trapping-of-circular-rydberg-atoms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rydberg atoms, which are atoms in a highly excited state, have several unique and advantageous properties, including a particularly long lifetime and large sensitivities to external fields. These properties make them valuable for a variety of applications, for instance for the development of quantum technologies.<\/p>\n<p>In order for Rydberg atoms to be effectively used in quantum technology, however, researchers first need to be able to trap them. While a number of studies have demonstrated the trapping of Rydberg atoms using magnetic, electric, or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/laser+technology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">laser technology<\/a>, the trapping times achieved so far have been relatively short, typically around 100\u03bcs.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB) have recently achieved a longer 2-D laser trapping time of circular Rydberg atoms of up to 10 ms. The method they employed, outlined in <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.aps.org\/prl\/abstract\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.124.123201\">a paper published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i><\/a>, could open up exciting new possibilities for the development of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+technology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rydberg atoms, which are atoms in a highly excited state, have several unique and advantageous properties, including a particularly long lifetime and large sensitivities to external fields. These properties make them valuable for a variety of applications, for instance for the development of quantum technologies. In order for Rydberg atoms to be effectively used in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}