Melting a frozen Rydberg gas with an attractive potential

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Viteau, Matthieu ^a   Chotia, Amodsen ^a   Comparat, Daniel ^a   Tate, Duncan A ^b   Gallagher, T F ^c   Pillet, Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Health Services and Department of Biology   (United States)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA RADIATION; ATOMIC PHYSICS; CESIUM; DIFFRACTIVE OPTICAL ELEMENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; IONIZATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; RYDBERG STATES;

BLACKBODY RADIATIONS; CESIUM ATOMS; DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; PENNING IONIZATIONS; POPULATION TRANSFERS; REPULSIVE POTENTIALS; RYDBERG; RYDBERG ATOMS; RYDBERG GASES; ULTRACOLD PLASMAS;

ATOMS;

EID: 55049116051     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.040704     Document Type: Article

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