as well as up to the continuum. This is a demonstration of a state-independent de-excitation technique applicable to the currently produced state distribution of antihydrogen. The measured population transfer matches well to a model of the process for one-dimensional atoms.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.81.013401

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n=50

with

10%

of the population de-excited down to

n<40

n

levels with a train of half-cycle pulses. Oscillations of the Rydberg population through both

n

levels and

l

levels are observed during these interactions. The approach may have applications in providing an effective mechanism for producing near ground-state atoms from the initially high-Rydberg distributions found in recombining ultracold plasmas such as encountered in the antihydrogen trapping experiments at CERN.

n=50,80

to much lower ones of ${n}^{\ensuremath{'}}\ensuremath{\approx}10$ in a short time of the order of 1 ns.

Excitation from

\mathrm{ns}

\mathrm{np}

, and

\mathrm{nd}

Rydberg states of rubidium to the adjacent manifolds by electrical pulses of 140 and 9 ns duration up to 200 V/cm is studied. These pulses correspond to half cycles of microwave fields of 2.6 GHz and 40 MHz. The observed population transfer (up to 40%) is not monotonically increasing with the field strength. For the 140 ps pulse local minima are found due to the absence of avoided crossings of appropriate size at the peak of the pulse. For the long pulses Stueckelberg oscillations are observed in the transfer yield.