Bulletin of the American Physical Society

State-dependent Energy Shift of Rydberg Atoms in a Ponderomotive Optical Lattice

Sarah Elizabeth Anderson, Kelly Cooper Younge, Brenton Knuffman, Georg A. Raithel

Published May 26, 2010• 0 citations

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