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Optically Engineered Quantum States in Ultrafast and Ultracold Systems

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This short account summarizes our recent achievements in ultrafast coherent control of isolated molecules in the gas phase, and its ongoing applications to an ensemble of ultracold Rydberg atoms to explore quantum many-body dynamics.

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Acknowledgments

The author acknowledges Professor Nobuyuki Takei (IMS) and Professor Christian Sommer (IMS) for the measurements with ultracold Rb atoms. These works have been supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research by JSPS, CREST by JST, and Photon-Frontier-Consortium Project by MEXT of Japan.

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Ohmori, K. Optically Engineered Quantum States in Ultrafast and Ultracold Systems. Found Phys 44, 813–818 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-014-9773-5

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Keywords

  • Quantum-classical boundary
  • Wavefunction
  • Laser
  • Wave packet
  • Interferometry
  • Coherent control
  • Femtosecond
  • Attosecond
  • Ultrafast
  • Quantum simulator
  • Molecular computer
  • Fourier transform