| Literature DB >> 18517782 |
T A Johnson1, E Urban, T Henage, L Isenhower, D D Yavuz, T G Walker, M Saffman.
Abstract
We demonstrate Rabi oscillations of small numbers of 87Rb atoms between ground and Rydberg states with n< or =43. Coherent population oscillations are observed for single atoms, while the presence of two or more atoms decoheres the oscillations. We show that these observations are consistent with van der Waals interactions of Rydberg atoms.Entities:
Year: 2008 PMID： 18517782 DOI： 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.113003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Phys Rev Lett ISSN： 0031-9007 Impact factor: 9.161