Rabi oscillations between ground and Rydberg states and van der Waals blockade in a mesoscopic frozen Rydberg gas

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Reetz Lamour, M ^a   Deiglmayr, J ^a   Amthor, T ^a   Weidemuller M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC PHYSICS; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; PUMPING (LASER); RUBIDIUM; RYDBERG STATES; SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS; TRUCKS; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

DECOHERENCE; ELECTRONIC GROUND STATES; FLAT TOP; LASER BANDWIDTH; LASER-COOLED; MANY-BODY; MESOSCOPIC; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); PREPRINT; PRINCIPAL QUANTUM NUMBERS; RABI OSCILLATIONS; RADIATIVE LIFETIMES; RYDBERG; RYDBERG GASES; SPATIAL INTENSITY; TWO PHOTONS; ULTRACOLD ATOMS; VAN DER WAALS;

ATOMS;

EID: 46449137036     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/4/045026     Document Type: Article

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