Investigation of dephasing rates in an interacting Rydberg gas

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Raitzsch, U ^a   Heidemann, R ^a   Weimer, H ^a   Butscher, B ^a   Kollmann, P ^a   Low R ^a   Buchler H P ^a   Pfau, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPHASING; DEPHASING RATES; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC TRAP; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; ROTARY ECHOES; RYDBERG GAS; SPIN STATE; VAN DER WAALS INTERACTIONS;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; RUBIDIUM; RYDBERG STATES; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 67249150727     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/5/055014     Document Type: Article

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