Physics – Atomic Physics
Scientific paper
2007-02-22
Physical Review A 75, 052720 (2007)
Physics
Atomic Physics
14 pages, 6 figures, 6 tables in Appendix
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.75.052720
Results of theoretical calculations of ionization rates of Rb and Na Rydberg atoms by blackbody radiation (BBR) are presented. Calculations have been performed for nS, nP and nD states of Na and Rb, which are commonly used in a variety of experiments, at principal quantum numbers n=8-65 and at three ambient temperatures of 77, 300 and 600 K. A peculiarity of our calculations is that we take into account the contributions of BBR-induced redistribution of population between Rydberg states prior to photoionization and field ionization by extraction electric field pulses. The obtained results show that these phenomena affect both the magnitude of measured ionization rates and shapes of their dependencies on n. The calculated ionization rates are compared with the results of our earlier measurements of BBR-induced ionization rates of Na nS and nD Rydberg states with n=8-20 at 300 K. A good agreement for all states except nS with n>15 is observed. We also present the useful analytical formulae for quick estimation of BBR ionization rates of Rydberg atoms.
Beterov Ilya I.
Bezuglov Nikolai N.
Ekers Aigars
Ryabtsev Igor I.
Tretyakov Denis B.
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