Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions and Single-Photon Interaction Dynamics in Rydberg Atoms
Speaker
Prof. Jin-Hui Wu
Center for Quantum Sciences, Northeast Normal University, China
Abstract

Rydberg atoms have attracted extensive attentions in recent years due to exaggerated properties like long lifetimes and strong interactions. They are shown in theory and experiment to promise a versatile platform for quantum information processing and quantum many-body simulation. Here we briefly review a few important advances on nonequilibrium phase transitions due to collective quantum jumps, exotic interaction dynamics between single-photon pulses, and phase gate strategies based on single-photon storage using cold or thermal Rydberg atoms. We also introduce one of our recent works by presenting an efficient approach with a set of nonlocal potentials to simulate the propagation dynamics of interacting single-photon pulses in a Rydberg atomic ensemble. Our full dynamical calculations show some unexpected results lacked in previous works where more approximations are adopted to overcome the complexity in many-body systems.

About the Speaker

吴金辉, 男, 1975年2月生, 黑龙江讷河人。教育部新世纪优秀人才和吉林省长白山学者特聘教授。2001年起在吉林大学任教, 2003年获理学博士学位, 2014年调至东北师范大学工作, 多次赴意大利比萨高师开展科研合作。主要从事量子光学领域的理论研究工作, 在Physical Review A等国内外学术期刊上发表SCI论文130余篇, 其中部分论文已被他人引用1200余次。科研工作曾获得饶毓泰基础光学奖优秀奖、吉林省青年科技奖和吉林省自然科学奖一等奖等多项奖励。

Date&Time
2017-01-09 2:00 PM
Location
Room: A403 Meeting Room
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