Inhibited Spontaneous Emission by a Rydberg Atom
- 11 November 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 55 (20) , 2137-2140
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.55.2137
Abstract
Spontaneous radiation by an atom in a Rydberg state has been inhibited by use of parallel conducting planes to eliminate the vacuum modes at the transition frequency. Spontaneous emission is observed to "turn off" abruptly at the cutoff frequency of the waveguidelike structure and the natural lifetime is measured to increase by a factor of at least 20.Keywords
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