Thermal Casimir-Polder shifts in Rydberg atoms near metallic surfaces

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Crosse, J A ^a   Ellingsen, Simen Å ^b   Clements, Kate ^a   Buhmann, Stefan Y ^a   Scheel, Stefan ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; ATOM-SURFACE DISTANCES; CASIMIR; COPPER SURFACE; DECAY RATE; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; FINITE TEMPERATURES; METAL SURFACES; METALLIC SURFACE; PRINCIPAL QUANTUM NUMBERS; QUADRUPOLES; RUBIDIUM ATOMS; RYDBERG ATOMS; TRANSITION RATES;

ATOMIC BEAMS; DECAY (ORGANIC); METALLIC COMPOUNDS; QUANTUM THEORY; RUBIDIUM; RYDBERG STATES;

ATOMS;

EID: 77954856471     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.010901     Document Type: Article

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