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Biography

Dr. Weibin Li is an Associate Professor (group site: www.cap-theory.org) at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham.

He obtained his PhD in atomic and molecular physics, in 2007 from Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He had his first postdoctoral position at Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany. He moved to the University of Nottingham as a Marie-Curie Intra-European Fellow and then obtained a Nottingham Advanced Research Fellowship. He has been promoted as an assistant professor from May 2016.

Visit the group page at www.cap-theory.org for more details on research and publications.

Expertise Summary

Dr. Weibin Li has worked on a number of topics in atomic, molecular and optical physics, including light-matter interactions, Rydberg atoms and ions, ultralong range Rydberg molecules, and quantum information and simulation with cold atoms. Currently, his research focuses on creation and manipulation of strongly correlated states of light and cold matter. Visit www.cap-theory.org for more details.

Currently PhD projects are available in these areas. For inquires please email me: weibin.li@nottingham.ac.uk

Selected Publications

• H. GORNIACZYK, C. TRESP, P. BIENIAS, A. PARIS-MANDOKI, W. LI, I. MIRGORODSKIY, H. P. BÜCHLER, I. LESANOVSKY and S. HOFFERBERTH, 2016. Enhancement of Rydberg-mediated single-photon nonlinearities by electrically tuned Förster Resonances Nature Communications. 7, 12480

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• YAN, TIANYI, COLLINS, MATTHEW, NATH, REJISH and LI, WEIBIN, 2023. Signatures of Quantum Chaos of Rydberg-Dressed Bosons in a Triple-Well Potential Atoms. 11(6), 89
• CAI, YAFEN, SHI, SHUAI, ZHOU, YIJIA, LI, YITONG, YU, JIANHAO, LI, WEIBIN and LI, LIN, 2023. High-Sensitivity Rydberg-Atom-Based Phase-Modulation Receiver for Frequency-Division-Multiplexing Communication Phys. Rev. Appl.. 19(4), 044079
• VARGHESE, DHIYA, WÜSTER, SEBASTIAN, LI, WEIBIN and NATH, REJISH, 2023. Maximally Entangled Rydberg-atom Pairs via Landau-Zener Sweeps Phys. Rev. A. 107(4), 043311
• JIAO, YUECHUN, HAO, LIPING, BAI, JINGXU, FAN, JIABEI, BAI, ZHENGYANG, LI, WEIBIN, ZHAO, JIANMING and JIA, SUOTANG, 2023. Dephasing of Ultracold Cesium 80Dtextsubscript5/2-Rydberg Electromagnetically Induced Transparency Opt. Express, OE. 31(5), 7545-7553
• DING, YAO, BAI, ZHENGYANG, HUANG, GUOXIANG and LI, WEIBIN, 2023. Facilitation-Induced Transparency and Single-Photon Switch with Dual-Channel Rydberg Interactions Phys. Rev. Appl.. 19(1), 014017
• LI, X. X., YOU, J. B., SHAO, X. Q. and LI, WEIBIN, 2022. Coherent ground-state transport of neutral atoms Phys. Rev. A. 105, 032417
• NANIYIL, VINEETHA, ZHOU, YIJIA, SIMMONDS, GUY, COOPER, NATHAN, LI, WEIBIN and HACKERMÜLLER, LUCIA, 2022. Observation of Collectivity Enhanced Magnetoassociation of 6Li in the Quantum Degenerate Regime New J. Phys.. 24(11), 113005
• HE, YUNHUI, BAI, ZHENGYANG, JIAO, YUECHUN, ZHAO, JIANMING and LI, WEIBIN, 2022. Superradiance Induced Multistability in Driven Rydberg Lattice Gases
• LI, X.X., SHAO, X.Q. and LI, WEIBIN, 2022. Single Temporal-Pulse-Modulated Parameterized Controlled-Phase Gate for Rydberg Atoms Phys. Rev. Applied. 18(4), 044042
• ZHOU, YIJIA, NATH, REJISH, WU, HAIBIN, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and LI, WEIBIN, 2021. Multipolar Fermi-surface deformation in a Rydberg-dressed Fermi gas with long-range anisotropic interactions Phys. Rev. A. 104, L061302
• ZHANG, YA, WANG, YU, JIANG, WEI and LI, WEIBIN, 2021. BCS-BEC crossover of ultracold ions driven by density-dependent short-range interactions in a quantum plasma Phys. Rev. A. 104, 063312
• WU, JIN-LEI, WANG, YAN, HAN, JIN-XUAN, JIANG, YONGYUAN, SONG, JIE, XIA, YAN, SU, SHI-LEI and LI, WEIBIN, 2021. Systematic-Error-Tolerant Multiqubit Holonomic Entangling Gates Phys. Rev. Applied. 16, 064031
• MCCORMACK, GARY, NATH, REJISH and LI, WEIBIN, 2021. Hyperchaos in a Bose-Hubbard Chain with Rydberg-Dressed Interactions Photonics. 8(12),
• SU, SHI-LEI and LI, WEIBIN, 2021. Dipole-dipole-interaction-driven antiblockade of two Rydberg atoms Phys. Rev. A. 104, 033716
• GAMBETTA, FILIPPO M., ZHANG, CHI, HENNRICH, MARKUS, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and LI, WEIBIN, 2021. Exploring the Many-Body Dynamics Near a Conical Intersection with Trapped Rydberg Ions Phys. Rev. Lett.. 126, 233404
• KIRKOVA, ALEKSANDRINA V., LI, WEIBIN and IVANOV, PETER A., 2021. Adiabatic sensing technique for optimal temperature estimation using trapped ions Phys. Rev. Research. 3, 013244
• MALLAVARAPU, S. KUMAR, NIRANJAN, ANKITA, LI, WEIBIN, W'USTER, SEBASTIAN and NATH, REJISH, 2021. Population trapping in a pair of periodically driven Rydberg atoms Phys. Rev. A. 103, 023335
• ANDREEV, A. V., BALANOV, A. G., FROMHOLD, T. M., GREENAWAY, M. T., HRAMOV, A. E., LI, W., MAKAROV, V. V. and ZAGOSKIN, A. M., 2021. Emergence and Control of Complex Behaviors in Driven Systems of Interacting Qubits with Dissipation npj Quantum Information. 7(1), 1-7
• HAO, LIPING, BAI, ZHENGYANG, BAI, JINGXU, BAI, SUYING, JIAO, YUECHUN, HUANG, GUOXIANG, ZHAO, JIAN-MING, LI, WEIBIN and JIA, SUOTANG, 2021. Observation of Blackbody Radiation Enhanced Superradiance in Ultracold Rydberg Gases New J. Phys.. 23, 083017
• ZHANG, YA, WANG, YU, JIANG, WEI and LI, WEIBIN, 2021. BCS-BEC crossover of ultracold ions driven by density-dependent short-range interactions in a quantum plasma PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 104(6),
• HAO, LIPING, BAI, ZHENGYANG, BAI, JINGXU, BAI, SUYING, JIAO, YUECHUN, HUANG, GUOXIANG, ZHAO, JIANMING, LI, WEIBIN and JIA, SUOTANG, 2021. Observation of blackbody radiation enhanced superradiance in ultracold Rydberg gases NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. 23(8),
• GAMBETTA, FILIPPO M., ZHANG, CHI, HENNRICH, MARKUS, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and LI, WEIBIN, 2021. Exploring the Many-Body Dynamics Near a Conical Intersection with Trapped Rydberg Ions PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 126(23),
• KIRKOVA, ALEKSANDRINA, V, LI, WEIBIN and IVANOV, PETER A., 2021. Adiabatic sensing technique for optimal temperature estimation using trapped ions PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH. 3(1),
• MALLAVARAPU, S. KUMAR, NIRANJAN, ANKITA, LI, WEIBIN, WUSTER, SEBASTIAN and NATH, REJISH, 2021. Population trapping in a pair of periodically driven Rydberg atoms PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 103(2),
• ZHOU, YIJIA, LESANOVSKY, IGOR, FERNHOLZ, THOMAS and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Controlling the dynamical scale factor in a trapped atom Sagnac interferometer Phys. Rev. A. 101, 012517
• NIRANJAN, ANKITA, LI, WEIBIN and NATH, REJISH, 2020. Landau-Zener transitions and adiabatic impulse approximation in an array of two Rydberg atoms with time-dependent detuning Phys. Rev. A. 101, 063415
• LI, YONGQIANG, CAI, HAN, WANG, DA-WEI, LI, LIN, YUAN, JIANMIN and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Many-Body Chiral Edge Currents and Sliding Phases of Atomic Spin Waves in Momentum-Space Lattice Phys. Rev. Lett.. 124, 140401
• GAMBETTA, F. M., LI, W., SCHMIDT-KALER, F. and LESANOVSKY, I., 2020. Engineering NonBinary Rydberg Interactions via Phonons in an Optical Lattice Phys. Rev. Lett.. 124, 043402
• ZHOU, YIJIA, LI, YONGQIANG, NATH, REJISH and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Quench dynamics of Rydberg-dressed bosons on two-dimensional square lattices Phys. Rev. A. 101, 013427
• JESSOP, M. R., LI, W. and ARMOUR, A. D., 2020. Phase synchronization in coupled bistable oscillators Phys. Rev. Research. 2, 013233
• DONG YAN, BINBIN WANG, ZHENGYANG BAI and WEIBIN LI, 2020. Electromagnetically induced transparency of interacting Rydberg atoms with two-body dephasing Opt. Express. 28(7), 9677-9689
• ZHANG, CHI, POKORNY, FABIAN, LI, WEIBIN, HIGGINS, GERARD, PÖSCHL, ANDREAS, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and HENNRICH, MARKUS, 2020. Submicrosecond entangling gate between trapped ions via Rydberg interaction Nature. 580(7803), 345
• JING QIU, ZHIPING WANG, DONGSHENG DING, WEIBIN LI and BENLI YU, 2020. Highly efficient vortex four-wave mixing in asymmetric semiconductor quantum wells Opt. Express. 28(3), 2975-2986
• MCCORMACK, GARY, NATH, REJISH and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Nonlinear dynamics of Rydberg-dressed Bose-Einstein condensates in a triple-well potential Phys. Rev. A. 102, 063329
• BAI, ZHENGYANG, ADAMS, CHARLES S., HUANG, GUOXIANG and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Self-Induced Transparency in Warm and Strongly Interacting Rydberg Gases Phys. Rev. Lett.. 125, 263605
• GUO, CHEN-YUE, YAN, L.-L., ZHANG, SHOU, SU, SHI-LEI and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Optimized geometric quantum computation with a mesoscopic ensemble of Rydberg atoms Phys. Rev. A. 102, 042607
• GAMBETTA, FILIPPO M., ZHANG, CHI, HENNRICH, MARKUS, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Long-Range Multibody Interactions and Three-Body Antiblockade in a Trapped Rydberg Ion Chain Phys. Rev. Lett.. 125, 133602
• BAI, ZHENGYANG, ADAMS, CHARLES S., HUANG, GUOXIANG and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Self-Induced Transparency in Warm and Strongly Interacting Rydberg Gases PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 125(26),
• MCCORMACK, GARY, NATH, REJISH and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Nonlinear dynamics of Rydberg-dressed Bose-Einstein condensates in a triple-well potential PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 102(6),
• GUO, CHEN-YUE, YAN, L-L, ZHANG, SHOU, SU, SHI-LEI and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Optimized geometric quantum computation with a mesoscopic ensemble of Rydberg atoms PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 102(4),
• GAMBETTA, FILIPPO M., ZHANG, CHI, HENNRICH, MARKUS, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Long-Range Multibody Interactions and Three-Body Antiblockade in a Trapped Rydberg Ion Chain PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 125(13),
• SHI, ZEYUN, LI, WEIBIN and HUANG, GUOXIANG, 2020. Structural phase transitions of optical patterns in atomic gases with microwave-controlled Rydberg interactions PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 102(2),
• NIRANJAN, ANKITA, LI, WEIBIN and NATH, REJISH, 2020. Landau-Zener transitions and adiabatic impulse approximation in an array of two Rydberg atoms with time-dependent detuning PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 101(6),
• LI, YONGQIANG, CAI, HAN, WANG, DA-WEI, LI, LIN, YUAN, JIANMIN and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Many-Body Chiral Edge Currents and Sliding Phases of Atomic Spin Waves in Momentum-Space Lattice PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 124(14),
• ZHOU, YIJIA, LESANOVSKY, IGOR, FERNHOLZ, THOMAS and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Controlling the dynamical scale factor in a trapped atom Sagnac interferometer PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 101(1),
• ZHOU, YIJIA, LI, YONGQIANG, NATH, REJISH and LI, WEIBIN, 2020. Quench dynamics of Rydberg-dressed bosons on two-dimensional square lattices PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 101(1),
• HANG, CHAO, LI, WEIBIN and HUANG, GUOXIANG, 2019. Nonlinear light diffraction by electromagnetically induced gratings with PT symmetry in a Rydberg atomic gas PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 100(4),
• VOGEL, J., LI, W., MOKHBERI, A., LESANOVSKY, I. and SCHMIDT-KALER, F., 2019. Shuttling of Rydberg Ions for Fast Entangling Operations Phys. Rev. Lett.. 123, 153603
• GAMBETTA, F. M., LESANOVSKY, I. and LI, W., 2019. Exploring nonequilibrium phases of the generalized Dicke model with a trapped Rydberg-ion quantum simulator Phys. Rev. A. 100, 022513
• ZHENGYANG BAI, WEIBIN LI and GUOXIANG HUANG, 2019. Stable single light bullets and vortices and their active control in cold Rydberg gases Optica. 6(3), 309-317
• HUANG, XI-RONG, DING, ZONG-XING, HU, CHANG-SHENG, SHEN, LI-TUO, LI, WEIBIN, WU, HUAIZHI and ZHENG, SHI-BIAO, 2018. Robust Rydberg gate via Landau-Zener control of Forster resonance PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 98(5),
• LI, YONGQIANG, GEISSLER, ANDREAS, HOFSTETTER, WALTER and LI, WEIBIN, 2018. Supersolidity of lattice bosons immersed in strongly correlated Rydberg dressed atoms PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 97(2),
• LAN, ZHIHAO, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and LI, WEIBIN, 2018. Devil's staircases without particle-hole symmetry PHYSICAL REVIEW B. 97(7),
• HIGGINS, GERARD, LI, WEIBIN, POKORNY, FABIAN, ZHANG, CHI, KRESS, FLORIAN, MAIER, CHRISTINE, HAAG, JOHANNES, BODART, QUENTIN, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and HENNRICH, MARKUS, 2017. Single Strontium Rydberg Ion Confined in a Paul Trap PHYSICAL REVIEW X. 7(2),
• H. GORNIACZYK, C. TRESP, P. BIENIAS, A. PARIS-MANDOKI, W. LI, I. MIRGORODSKIY, H. P. BÜCHLER, I. LESANOVSKY and S. HOFFERBERTH, 2016. Enhancement of Rydberg-mediated single-photon nonlinearities by electrically tuned Förster Resonances Nature Communications. 7, 12480
• LAN, ZHIHAO, LI, WEIBIN and LESANOVSKY, IGOR, 2016. Quantum melting of two-component Rydberg crystals PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 94(5),
• HUSH, MICHAEL R., LI, WEIBIN, GENWAY, SAM, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and ARMOUR, ANDREW D., 2015. Spin correlations as a probe of quantum synchronization in trapped-ion phonon lasers PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 91(6), 1401-1401
• DANIEL VISCOR, WEIBIN LI and IGOR LESANOVSKY, 2015. Electromagnetically induced transparency of a single-photon in dipole-coupled one-dimensional atomic clouds New J. Phys.. 17, 033007
• MUKHERJEE, RICK, ATES, CENAP, LI, WEIBIN and W'USTER, SEBASTIAN, 2015. Phase-Imprinting of Bose-Einstein Condensates with Rydberg Impurities Phys. Rev. Lett.. 115, 040401
• M MARCUZZI, E LEVI, W LI, J P GARRAHAN, B OLMOS and I LESANOVSKY, 2015. Non-equilibrium universality in the dynamics of dissipative cold atomic gases New Journal of Physics. 17(7), 072003
• LI, WEIBIN and LESANOVSKY, IGOR, 2015. Coherence in a cold-atom photon switch Phys. Rev. A. 92, 043828
• LAN, ZHIHAO, MINAR, JIRI, LEVI, EMANUELE, LI, WEIBIN and LESANOVSKY, IGOR, 2015. Emergent Devil's Staircase without Particle-Hole Symmetry in Rydberg Quantum Gases with Competing Attractive and Repulsive Interactions PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. 115(20), 203001
• VISCOR, DANIEL, LI, WEIBIN and LESANOVSKY, IGOR, 2015. Electromagnetically induced transparency of a single-photon in dipole-coupled one-dimensional atomic clouds NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. 17,
• HUSH, MICHAEL R., LI, WEIBIN, GENWAY, SAM, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and ARMOUR, ANDREW D., 2015. Spin correlations as a probe of quantum synchronization in trapped-ion phonon lasers PHYSICAL REVIEW A. 91(6),
• LI, WEIBIN, VISCOR, DANIEL, HOFFERBERTH, SEBASTIAN and LESANOVSKY, IGOR, 2014. Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in an Entangled Medium Phys. Rev. Lett.. 112, 243601
• GENWAY, SAM, LI, WEIBIN, ATES, CENAP, LANYON, BENJAMIN P. and LESANOVSKY, IGOR, 2014. Generalized Dicke Nonequilibrium Dynamics in Trapped Ions Phys. Rev. Lett.. 112, 023603
• LI, WEIBIN and LESANOVSKY, IGOR, 2014. Entangling quantum gate in trapped ions via Rydberg blockade APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTICS. 114(1-2), 37-44
• W. LI, C. ATES and I. LESANOVSKY, 2013. Nonadiabatic Motional Effects and Dissipative Blockade for Rydberg Atoms Excited from Optical Lattices or Microtraps Physical Review Letters. 110, 213005
• LI, WEIBIN, GLAETZLE, ALEXANDER W., NATH, REJISH and LESANOVSKY, IGOR, 2013. Parallel execution of quantum gates in a long linear ion chain via Rydberg mode shaping Phys. Rev. A. 87, 052304
• MONTGOMERY, T.W.A., LI, W. and FROMHOLD, T.M., 2013. Spin Josephson vortices in two tunnel-coupled spinor Bose gases Physical Review Letters. 111(10), 105302
• LAYCOCK, T., OLMOS, B., MONTGOMERY, T. W. A., LI, W., FROMHOLD, T. M. and LESANOVSKY, I., 2013. Control of atomic Rydberg states using guided electrons JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS. 46(24),
• ATES, C., OLMOS, B., LI, W. and LESANOVSKY, I., 2012. Dissipative binding of lattice bosons through distance-selective pair loss Physical Review Letters. 109(23), 233003
• LI, W. and LESANOVSKY, I., 2012. Electronically excited cold ion crystals Physical Review Letters. 108(2), 023003
• LI, WEIBIN, HAMADEH, LAMA and LESANOVSKY, IGOR, 2012. Probing the interaction between Rydberg-dressed atoms through interference Phys. Rev. A. 85, 053615
• SCHMIDT-KALER, F, FELDKER, T, KOLBE, D, WALZ, J, MULLER, M, ZOLLER, P, LI, W and LESANOVSKY, I, 2011. Rydberg Excitation Of Trapped Cold Ions: A Detailed Case Study New Journal Of Physics. 13, -
• LI, W., POHL, T., ROST, J. M., RITTENHOUSE, S.T., SADEGHPOUR, H.R., NIPPER, J., BUTSCHER, B., BALEWSKI, J.B., BENDKOWSKY, V., LÖW, R. and PFAU, T., 2011. A homonuclear molecule with a permanent electric dipole moment Science. 334(6059), 1110-1114
• BJÖRN BUTSCHER, VERA BENDKOWSKY, JOHANNES NIPPER, JONATHAN B BALEWSKI, LUDMILA KUKOTA, ROBERT LÖW, TILMAN PFAU, WEIBIN LI, THOMAS POHL and JAN MICHAEL ROST, 2011. Lifetimes of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules in vibrational ground and excited states J. Phys. B. 44, 184004
• BENDKOWSKY, V., BUTSCHER, B., NIPPER, J., BALEWSKI, J. B., SHAFFER, J. P., L'OW, R., PFAU, T., LI, W., STANOJEVIC, J., POHL, T. and ROST, J. M., 2010. Rydberg Trimers and Excited Dimers Bound by Internal Quantum Reflection Phys. Rev. Lett.. 105, 163201
• ZHANG, CHI, POKORNY, FABIAN, LI, WEIBIN, HIGGINS, GERARD, PÖSCHL, ANDREAS, LESANOVSKY, IGOR and HENNRICH, MARKUS, Submicrosecond entangling gate between trapped ions via Rydberg interaction 580(7803), 345-349