Landau-zener transitions in frozen Pairs of rydberg atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 104, Issue 13, 2010, Pages

  Saquet, Nicolas ^a   Cournol, Anne ^a   Beugnon, Jérôme ^a,b   Robert, Jacques ^a   Pillet, Pierre ^a   Vanhaecke, Nicolas ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE AIMÉ COTTON   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC CHANGES; ADIABATIC TRANSITIONS; DIPOLE DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; INTERNAL STATE; LANDAU-ZENER MODELS; LANDAU-ZENER TRANSITIONS; RYDBERG; RYDBERG ATOMS; SODIUM ATOM; SUPERSONIC BEAMS; TIME-DEPENDENT ELECTRIC FIELD;

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ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 77950446299     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.133003     Document Type: Article

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