Exploiting the composite character of Rydberg atoms for cold-atom trapping

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Mayle, Michael ^a   Lesanovsky, Igor ^b   Schmelcher, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM TRAPPING; COMPOSITE CHARACTERS; GROUND-STATE ATOMS; POINT-LIKE PARTICLES; QUANTUM PROPERTIES; RYDBERG; RYDBERG ATOMS; TIME OF FLIGHT; TRAPPING POTENTIAL; TRAPPING PROPERTIES; TWO PHOTON;

ATOMIC BEAMS; GROUND STATE; LASERS; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; RYDBERG STATES;

ATOMS;

EID: 67650283675     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.041403     Document Type: Article

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