Many-body effects in a frozen Rydberg gas

Year: 1998

Authors: Mourachko I., Comparat D., de Tomasi F., Fioretti A., Nosbaum P., Akulin V.M., Pillet P.

Autors Affiliation: Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS II, Bât. 505, Campus d’Orsay, Orsay, 91405, France; IBM Luxembourg, 1, Ceinture Um Schlass, Hesperange, L-5880, United States; University of Marne laVallée, Noisy le Grand, France

Abstract: We studied the properties of a cold (similar to 100 mu K) and dense (similar to 10(8-10) cm(-3)) atomic Rydberg Cs gas, and found that the observed widths and shapes of resonances in population transfers cannot be explained in the framework of a usual gas model. We propose a \”frozen Rydberg gas\” model, where the interplay between two-body and many-body phenomena affects in an unexpected way the width and the shape of spectral lines.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume: 80 (2)      Pages from: 253  to: 256

KeyWords: Multiphoton ionization and excitation t; Optical cooling of atoms; trapping; Atomic and molecular collision processes
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.253

Citations: 286
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