Rydberg Atoms

These are the course materials for a graduate level course on Rydberg atoms taught at Leibniz University Hannover in the summer term 2015.

Properties of Rydberg atoms

 * /Quantum Defect Theory
 * /Excitation of Rydberg States

Interacting Rydberg Atoms

 * /Rydberg blockade
 * /Light-matter interactions

Many-body physics

 * /Quantum phase transitions
 * /Quantum simulation