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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.133003
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- ANR [NT05-2 41884]
- Institut Francilien de Recherche sur les Atomes Froids (IFRAF)
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We have induced adiabatic transitions in pairs of frozen Rydberg sodium atoms of a supersonic beam. The diatomic ns + ns -> np + (n - 1)p transition takes place in a time-dependent electric field and originates from the adiabatic change of the internal state of the pair induced by the dipole-dipole interaction. This is experimentally achieved by sweeping an electric field across the energy degeneracy ns ns - np(n -1)p. Our results fully agree with a two-level Landau-Zener model in the diatom system.
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