Is a circular Rydberg atom stable in a vanishing electric field?
- 22 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 57 (25) , 3160-3163
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.57.3160
Abstract
It is shown both experimentally and theoretically that a Rydberg circular atom keeps its maximum momentum only if it is submitted to a nonzero static electric field whose direction is constant or slowly varying. The minimum characteristic time of the field-allowed rotation is determined. The implications of this effect for a future high-resolution microwave spectroscopy experiment on circular Rydberg atoms is discussed.Keywords
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