Highly excited atoms

Munir Hasan Nayfeh

Daniel Kleppner, Michael G. Littman, Myron L. Zimmerman

Scott G. Leslie, J. T. Verdeyen, W. Millar

Fluorescence from highly excited atomic states has been observed in cesium vapor irradiated by a dye laser tuned to either one of the 62S–72P transitions. The emission originated from levels as high as 1 eV above the state being pumped. The high-lying states are believed to be excited by an electronic energy transfer induced in a collision of two atoms occupying lower excited levels.

Борис М. Смирнов

The properties of highly excited atoms are examined. Methods for producing and detecting such atoms are analyzed. Various processes that involve atoms in Rydberg states are described, including transitions between high-lying excited states induced by collisions with electrons and atoms, quenching by electrons and atoms, ionization by collisions with electrons, atoms, and molecules, charge exchange with ions, and so on.

Hans H. Koller

Ian Colin Percival, T. R. Carson