Shannon Whitlock's Journal Club:
Coupling Rydberg atoms with surfaces

Paper 1. S. D. Hogan et al, "Driving Rydberg-Rydberg transitions from a coplanar microwave waveguide", Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, 063004 (2012)

Paper 2. H. Hattermann et al, "Detrimental adsorbate fields in experiments with cold Rydberg gases near surfaces", Phys. Rev. A., 86, 022511 (2012)

Additional information:

Tauschinsky et al, "Spatially resolved excitation of Rydberg atoms and surface effects on an atom chip", Phys. Rev. A, 81, 063411 (2010)

Gleyzes et al, "Quantum jumps of light recording the birth and death of a photon in a cavity", Nature, 446, 297 (2007)

Sorenson et al, "Capacitive Coupling of Atomic Systems to Mesoscopic Conductors", Phys. Rev. Lett., 92, 063601 (2004)