Population Trapping in Extremely Highly Excited States in Microwave Ionization

Authors

Michael W. Noel, Bryn Mawr CollegeFollow
W. M. Griffith
T. F. Gallagher

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