Review Article

From Single Atoms to Engineered “Super-Atoms”: Interfacing Photons and Atoms in Free Space

Figure 16

Artificial superatom based on Rydberg atoms. Under the condition of full Rydberg blockade for atoms, the system gives rise to a superatom state with a single Rydberg excitation shared among the particles with collective Rabi frequency . In addition, the system exhibits dark states , which are coupled to the superatom state by a controlled inhomogeneous dephasing with rate . The figure is adapted from [136].