Phys. Rev. A 72, 063403 (2005) [4 pages]Many-body wave function in a dipole blockade configurationReceived 27 May 2005; published 2 December 2005 We report the results of simulations of the many atom wave function when a cold gas is excited to highly excited states. We simulated the many body wave function by direct numerical solution of Schrödinger’s equation. We investigated the fraction of atoms excited and the correlation of excited atoms in the gas for different types of excitation when the blockade region was small compared to the sample size. We also investigated the blockade effect when the blockade region is comparable to the sample size to determine the sensitivity of this system and constraints for quantum information. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.063403
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.063403
PACS:
32.80.Rm, 34.20.Cf, 32.80.Pj
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