Cold and trapped metastable noble gases
Quantum Physics
2012-03-14 v2 Atomic Physics
Abstract
We review experimental and theoretical work on cold, trapped metastable noble gases. We em- phasize the aspects which distinguish work with these atoms from the large body of work on cold, trapped atoms in general. These aspects include detection techniques and collision processes unique to metastable atoms. We describe several experiments exploiting these unique features in fields including atom optics and statistical physics. We also discuss precision measurements on these atoms including fine structure splittings, isotope shifts, and atomic lifetimes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1110.1361,
title = {Cold and trapped metastable noble gases},
author = {Wim Null Vassen and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and Michèle Leduc and Denis Boiron and Christoph I Westbrook and Andrew Truscott and Ken Baldwin and Gerhard Birkl and Pablo Cancio and Marek Trippenbach},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.1361},
year = {2012}
}