Objective The objective is to study Rydberg excitations in mesoscopic ensembles of cold atoms confined to a small volume and to verify the dipole blockade scheme. Robust macroscopic entanglement and quantum gates is the outlook: Fields of science engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcomputer hardwarequantum computers Programme(s) FP5-HUMAN POTENTIAL - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Improving the human research potential and the socio-economic knowledge base" (1998-2002) Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme RGI - Research grants (individual fellowships) Coordinator RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG EU contribution No data Address Philosophenweg 12 69120 HEIDELBERG Germany See on map Total cost No data