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Controlling excitation avalanches in driven Rydberg gases

Klocke, Kai and Buchhold, Michael (2019) Controlling excitation avalanches in driven Rydberg gases. Physical Review A, 99 (5). Art. No. 053616. ISSN 2469-9926. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.99.053616. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190520-090739781

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Abstract

Recent experiments with strongly interacting, driven Rydberg ensembles have introduced a promising setup for the study of self-organized criticality (SOC) in cold atom systems. Based on this setup, we theoretically propose a control mechanism for the paradigmatic avalanche dynamics of SOC in the form of a time-dependent drive amplitude. This gives access to a variety of avalanche dominated, self-organization scenarios, prominently including self-organized criticality, as well as sub- and supercritical dynamics. We analyze the dependence of the dynamics on external scales and spatial dimensionality. It demonstrates the potential of driven Rydberg systems as a playground for the exploration of an extended SOC phenomenology and their relation to other common scenarios of SOC, such as, e.g., in neural networks and on graphs.


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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.99.053616DOIArticle
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.12181arXivDiscussion Paper
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Klocke, Kai0000-0002-9580-8509
Buchhold, Michael0000-0001-5194-9388
Additional Information:© 2019 American Physical Society. Received 12 March 2019; published 24 May 2019. We thank G. Refael, S. Diehl, and S. Whitlock for valuable comments on the manuscript. K.K. was supported by the J. Weldon Green SURF fellowship and M.B. acknowledges support from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation.
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Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)UNSPECIFIED
Alexander von Humboldt FoundationUNSPECIFIED
Issue or Number:5
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.99.053616
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Deposited By: Tony Diaz
Deposited On:20 May 2019 16:45
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