Dislocation-mediated melting of one-dimensional Rydberg crystals
Dislocation-mediated melting of one-dimensional Rydberg crystals
We consider cold Rydberg atoms in a one-dimensional optical lattice in the Mott regime with a single atom per site at zero temperature. An external laser drive with Rabi frequency \Omega and laser detuning \Delta, creates Rydberg excitations whose dynamics is governed by an effective spin-chain model with (quasi) long-range …