Atomic quantum sensors (e.g. clocks, magnetometers, electrometers, inertial sensors, etc.) are being used to solve real-world problems including global positioning, imaging of biological systems, and geodesy, with new applications continually emerging. The breadth of the atomic sensor design space is daunting, since one may utilize any combination of atomic states, lasers, rf fields, time-dependence, atomic nonlinearities, lasercooling and trapping, and Rydberg states. Quantum sensor researchers need computationally-powerful software tools to serve as forward models for atomic vapor-based sensing.
RydIQule (Rydberg sensing Interactive Quantum Module) is a general python module developed by DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland that can calculate response of a Rydberg sensor to arbitrary static and time-dependent RF fields. This package is being used by numerous research teams to advance quantum sensing science and emerging technology.