Observation of Cavity-Enhanced Single-Atom Spontaneous Emission

1983/06/13 by P. Goy, J. M. Raimond, M. Groß +1 · 13 citations
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paper · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.50.1903

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Abstract

It has been observed that the spontaneous-emission lifetime of Rydberg atoms is shortened by a large ratio when these atoms are crossing a high-Q superconducting cavity tuned to resonance with a millimeter-wave transition between adjacent Rydberg states.

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