Rydberg state engineering of trapped ions
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Quantum Physics arXiv:2605.30483 (quant-ph) [Submitted on 28 May 2026] Title:Rydberg state engineering of trapped ions Authors:Robin Thomm, Vinay Shankar, Natalia Kuk, Marion Mallweger, Ivo Straka, Markus Hennrich View a PDF of the paper titled Rydberg state engineering of trapped ions, by Robin Thomm and Vinay Shankar and Natalia Kuk and Marion Mallweger and Ivo Straka and Markus Hennrich View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Microwave dressing of Rydberg ions creates tunable eigenstates with controllable polarizability and interaction strength, but coherent navigation between these states has remained elusive. Here, we report on the first demonstration of coherent population transfer between different Rydberg states of a trapped ion. We investigate both microwave-mediated Rabi oscillations between Rydberg S and P states and adiabatic transfer between microwave-dressed Rydberg states. Between Rydberg S and P states we achieve a population transfer efficiency of 91.5(5)% in a single microwave ${\pi}$-pulse. Microwave dressing hybridizes the S and P Rydberg states into new eigenstates with tunable polarizability, enabling both noise-resilient zero-polarizability states and maximally interacting states. We demonstrate adiabatic transfer between these zero-polarizability and maximally dressed states, enabling experiments that combine noise-resilient excitation with strong dipole-dipole interactions and Förster resonance control within a single measurement sequence. Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2605.30483 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2605.30483v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.30483 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Robin Thomm [view email] [v1] Thu, 28 May 2026 19:00:31 UTC (2,868 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Rydberg state engineering of trapped ions, by Robin Thomm and Vinay Shankar and Natalia Kuk and Marion Mallweger and Ivo Straka and Markus HennrichView PDFHTML (experimental)TeX Source view license Current browse context: quant-ph new | recent | 2026-05 Change to browse by: physics physics.atom-ph References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADSGoogle Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Loading... BibTeX formatted citation × loading... Data provided by: Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)