rf Spectroscopy of Trapped Neutral Atoms
- 21 November 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 61 (21) , 2431-2434
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.61.2431
Abstract
We report the first observation of rf-induced transitions of trapped neutral atoms. An rf resonance curve for a sample of trapped Na atoms has been obtained by measuring the relative population of two trapped magnetic substates as a function of applied rf frequency. The shape of the resonance curve has been used to determine the energy distribution of the trapped atoms.Keywords
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