Suppression of excitation and spectral broadening induced by interactions in a cold gas of Rydberg atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 16, 2004, Pages

  Singer, Kilian ^a   Reetz Lamour, Markus ^a   Amthor, Thomas ^a   Marcassa, Luis Gustavo ^a,b   Weidemüller, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; DATA PROCESSING; DIFFUSION; FREQUENCIES; QUANTUM THEORY; RESONANCE; RUBIDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; VACUUM; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EXTENDED CAVITY DIODE LASERS (ECDL); MAGNETO-OPTICAL TRAPS (MOT); RYDBERG ATOMS; RYDBERG EXCITATION;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 11344281744     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.163001     Document Type: Review

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