Document Type
Article
Version
Final Published Version
Publication Title
Physical Review Letters
Volume
83
Publication Date
1999
Abstract
When a lithium atom in a Rydberg state (n 80) is exposed to a short, intense microwave pulse we find that substantial population is left in extremely highly excited states (n . 120), in spite of the fact that the microwave field amplitude is more than 40 times larger than required to classically ionize these states.
Publisher's Statement
© 1999 by the American Physical Society. The publisher's version of the article can be found at http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1747
Citation
Michael W. Noel, W. M. Griffith, and T. F. Gallagher, "Population Trapping in Extremely Highly Excited States in Microwave Ionization," Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1747 (1999).
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1747