Consequences of Zeeman degeneracy for the van der Waals blockade between Rydberg atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Walker, Thad G ^a   Saffman, M ^a  

^a Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ATOMIC PHYSICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ATOM-ATOM INTERACTIONS; VAN DER WAALS BLOCKADE; ZEEMAN DEGENERACY;

VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

EID: 41549101517     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.032723     Document Type: Article

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