Visualization of the core-scattering dynamics of Rydberg wave packets

Optics Express

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-38

  West, J A ^a   Stroud Jr , C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS; COULOMB BLOCKADE; DIAMAGNETIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRONS; HYDROGEN; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; VISUALIZATION;

ALKALI ATOMS; CORE-SCATTERING DYNAMICS; RYDBERG ATOMS; WAVE PACKETS;

WAVES;

EID: 4043073459     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.1.000031     Document Type: Article

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