Inhibited Spontaneous Emission by a Rydberg Atom

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1985
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Spontaneous radiation by an atom in a Rydberg state has been inhibited by use of parallel conducting planes to eliminate the vacuum modes at the transition frequency. Spontaneous emission is observed to "turn off" abruptly at the cutoff frequency of the waveguidelike structure and the natural lifetime is measured to increase by a factor of at least 20.

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Hulet, Randall G., Hilfer, Eric S. and Kleppner, Daniel. "Inhibited Spontaneous Emission by a Rydberg Atom." Physical Review Letters, 55, no. 20 (1985) American Physical Society: 2137-2140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.2137.

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