Spectral properties of finite laser-driven lattices of ultracold Rydberg atoms

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the spectral properties of finite laser-driven lattices of ultracold Rydberg atoms, revealing excitation characteristics, degeneracies, and analytical solutions in different laser regimes.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive analysis of the spectral properties, including degeneracies and excitation states, and derives analytical solutions for pseudo-fermionic eigenmodes in strong laser regimes.

Findings

Identification of many-body Rydberg states with specific excitation properties

Analytical solutions for pseudo-fermionic eigenmodes in strong laser regime

Perturbative energy corrections for eigenstates

Abstract

We investigate the spectral properties of a finite laser-driven lattice of ultracold Rydberg atoms exploiting the dipole blockade effect in the frozen Rydberg gas regime. Uniform one-dimensional lattices as well as lattices with variable spacings are considered. In the case of a weak laser coupling, we find a multitude of many-body Rydberg states with well-defined excitation properties which are adiabatically accessible starting from the ground state. A comprehensive analysis of the degeneracies of the spectrum as well as of the single and pair excitations numbers of the eigenstates is performed. In the strong laser regime, analytical solutions for the pseudo-fermionic eigenmodes are derived. Perturbative energy corrections for this approximative approach are provided.