Lifetime measurement of the 3P2 metastable state of strontium atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 15, 2004, Pages

  Yasuda, Masami ^a   Katori, Hidetoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CLOCKS; ATOMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EVAPORATION; GAS CONDENSATES; GROUND STATE; MAGNETOOPTICAL EFFECTS; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION;

BLACKBODY RADIATION; LIFETIME; METASTABLE STATES; OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY;

STRONTIUM;

EID: 2542449260     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.153004     Document Type: Article

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