Task Force Meeting „Cold Ions and Rydberg Atoms in Atomic Gases“

From 12.11.2019 to 13.11.2019 the 5th Institute of Physics welcomed 23 participants from institutions throughout Germany and from the Netherlands for a joined task-force meeting on „Cold Ions and Rydberg Atoms in Atomic Gases“. The meeting brought together leading experts in the field of charge-neutral hybrid quantum systems comprising trapped ions and Rydberg atoms. Participants discussed recent highlights and future perspectives on topics including Rydberg molecules, ion and Rydberg impurities, and charge-neutral collisions and chemistry.

Invited speakers included:

• Matthew Eiles (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden),
• Christian Fey (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching),
• Rene Gerritsma (University of Amsterdam),
• Johannes Hecker Denschlag (Universät Ulm),
• Leon Karpa (Universität Freiburg),
• Herwig Ott (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern),
• Hossein Sadeghpour (ITAMP, Harvard University),
• Peter Schmelcher (Universität Hamburg).
  

The meeting programme is available as a PDF download (as of 08 November 2019).

The event was supported by DFG Priority Programme SPP 1929 Giant Interactions in Rydberg Systems (GiRyd).

DFG SPP 1929 Giant Interactions in Rydberg Systems (GiRyd)