Observation of Cavity-Enhanced Single-Atom Spontaneous Emission
- 13 June 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 50 (24), 1903-1906
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.50.1903
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- superconducting cavity tuned to resonance with a millimeter-wave transition between adjacent Rydberg states.
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