Shannon Whitlock's Journal Club:
Rydberg polaritons and atom light interactions

Paper 1. Peyronel et al, "Quantum nonlinear optics with single photons enabled by strongly interacting atoms". Nature, 488, 57 (2012). See also News and Views by T. Walker "Strongly interacting photons", ibid.

Paper 2. C. S. Hofmann et al, "Sub-Poissonian statistics of Rydberg interacting dark state polaritons", Phys. Rev. Lett., 110, 203601 (2013)

Additional information:

Supplementary information to the article "Quantum nonlinear optics with single photons enabled by strongly interacting atoms", Nature, 488, 57 (2012)

V. Parigi et al, "Observation and Measurement of Interaction-Induced Dispersive Optical Nonlinearities in an Ensemble of Cold Rydberg Atoms" Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, 233602 (2012)

D. Maxwell et al, "Storage and control of optical photons using Rydberg polaritons", Phys. Rev. Lett., 110, 103001 (2013)

L. Li, Y. O. Dudin and A. Kuzmich, "Entanglement between light and an optical atomic excitation", Nature (online) (2013). See also News and Views by M. Weidemüller "Spooky action gets collective", Nature, ibid.