Experimental observation of controllable kinetic constraints in a cold atomic gas

María Martínez Valado, Cristiano Simonelli, M. D. Hoogerland, Igor Lesanovsky, Juan P. Garrahan, E. Arimondo, D. Ciampini, O. Morsch

Physical review. A/Physical review, A · 2016 · 85 citations · 32 references

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Nonequilibrium dynamics with controllable kinetic constraints are experimentally realized with cold interacting Rydberg gases. The blockade and facilitation constraints are shown to lead to strikingly different dynamical evolutions of the Rydberg excitations.

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