Breakdown of the dipole blockade with a zero-area phase-jump pulse

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Qian, Jun ^a,b   Qian, Yong ^c   Ke, Min ^a   Feng, Xun Li ^b   Oh, C H ^b   Wang, Yuzhu ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE EXCITATIONS; NON-ADIABATIC; RYDBERG; RYDBERG ATOMS; SWITCHING TIME;

EID: 70450239640     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.053413     Document Type: Article

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