Kinetic Monte Carlo modeling of dipole blockade in Rydberg excitation experiment

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Chotia, Amodsen ^a   Viteau, Matthieu ^a   Vogt, Thibault ^a   Comparat, Daniel ^a   Pillet, Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; ATOMS; EXPERIMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; RADIATION DAMAGE;

COMPUTATION TIME; DYNAMIC PROCESSES; EVOLUTION (CO); EXACT SOLUTIONS; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); KINETIC MONTE CARLO (KMC) METHODS; KINETIC MONTE CARLO (KMC) MODELING; KINETIC MONTE CARLO (KMC) SIMULATIONS; OPTICAL BLOCH EQUATIONS; PARTICLE EFFECTS; RATE EQUATIONS; RYDBERG; RYDBERG EXCITATIONS; SPACE AND TIME;

LASER EXCITATION;

EID: 46449097830     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/4/045031     Document Type: Article

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