Researchers have encoded a machine learning feature-selection problem directly into the geometry and laser control of neutral-atom Rydberg arrays, achieving performance competitive with classical ...

For the first time, a team of US researchers has used sensors containing highly excited Rydberg atoms to detect signals from an ordinary handheld radio. Through a careful approach to demodulating the ...

Rydberg atoms are considered promising building blocks for quantum computers and their precursors, quantum simulators. Researchers at the 5th Institute of Physics of the University of Stuttgart have ...

Theorists uncover a new way that interactions between highly excited atoms can affect the way they radiate. Figure 1: Atoms in highly excited states, called Rydberg atoms, have a large effective size ...

Quantum sensors are fascinating instruments that reveal nature to us in ways that were unthinkable just a few years ago. These are relatively small devices that help investigate items of scientific ...

Quantum computers of the future could operate via the energy transitions of excited atoms, or even from pure light, if a rapidly growing area of atomic physics continues to meet with success, writes ...