Evidence for coherent collective rydberg excitation in the strong blockade regime

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 16, 2007, Pages

  Heidemann, Rolf ^a   Raitzsch, Ulrich ^a   Bendkowsky, Vera ^a   Butscher, Björn ^a   Löw, Robert ^a   Santos, Luis ^b   Pfau, Tilman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; LASER RADIATION; PHOTONS; RUBIDIUM; RYDBERG STATES;

MESOSCOPIC SYSTEMS; RYDBERG EXCITATION; SINGLE QUANTUM; VANDERWAALS BLOCKADE;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 35348892748     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.163601     Document Type: Article

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