Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Diffusive-like redistribution in state-changing collisions between Rydberg atoms and ground state atoms

  • Philipp Geppert,
  • Max Althön,
  • Daniel Fichtner,
  • Herwig Ott

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24146-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Here, the authors discuss state-changing inelastic collisions between rubidium Rydberg and ground state atoms. They employ high-resolution magneto-optical trap recoil-ion momentum spectroscopy to measure the distribution of the final states.