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Observation of Cavity-Enhanced Single-Atom Spontaneous Emission

1983; American Physical Society; Volume: 50; Issue: 24 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.50.1903

1092-0145

P. Goy, J. M. Raimond, M. Groß, S. Haroche,

Quantum Mechanics and Applications

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-$Q$ superconducting cavity tuned to resonance with a millimeter-wave transition between adjacent Rydberg states.