Ionizing collisional rate of metastable rare-gas atoms in an optical lattice

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 621-624

  Kunugita, Hideyuki ^a   Ido, Tetsuya ^a   Shimizu, Fujio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; IONIZATION OF GASES; KRYPTON; LASER TUNING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

COLLISIONAL RATE; LASER POWER DENSITY; OPTICAL LATTICE;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0031189431     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.621     Document Type: Article

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