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This work is aimed at preparing highly excited optically cooled lithium-7 atoms for producing a strongly nonideal plasma and Rydberg matter. A setup implementing a novel nondestructive technique for preparation and diagnostics of highly excited Rydberg atomic states is constructed. The operation of this setup is based on the usage of a cw high-power ultraviolet laser combined with a magneto-optical trap. The diagnostics of highly excited states is performed by the direct recording of the variations in the fluorescence of ultracold lithium-7 atoms in the magneto-optical trap.
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Original Russian Text © B.B. Zelener, S.A. Saakyan, V.A. Sautenkov, E.A. Manykin, B.V. Zelener, V.E. Fortov, 2014, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Eksperimental’noi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, 2014, Vol. 100, No. 6, pp. 408–412.
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Zelener, B.B., Saakyan, S.A., Sautenkov, V.A. et al. Efficient excitation of Rydberg states in ultracold lithium-7 atoms. Jetp Lett. 100, 366–370 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002136401418012X
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