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Highly excited atomic states


Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Izhorskaya 13/19, Moscow, 127412, Russian Federation

The properties of highly excited atoms are examined. Methods for producing and detecting such atoms are analyzed. Various processes that involve atoms in Rydberg states are described, including transitions between high-lying excited states induced by collisions with electrons and atoms, quenching by electrons and atoms, ionization by collisions with electrons, atoms, and molecules, charge exchange with ions, and so on.

PACS: 31.50.+w, 34.50.Hc, 34.70.+e, 34.80.Dp (all)
DOI: 10.1070/PU1980v023n08ABEH005020
URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/1980/8/b/
Citation: Smirnov B M "Highly excited atomic states" Sov. Phys. Usp. 23 450–471 (1980)
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%T Highly excited atomic states
%A B. M. Smirnov
%I Physics-Uspekhi
%D 1980
%J Phys. Usp.
%V 23
%N 8
%P 450-471
%U https://ufn.ru/en/articles/1980/8/b/
%U https://doi.org/10.1070/PU1980v023n08ABEH005020

Оригинал: Смирнов Б М «Высоковозбужденные состояния атомов» УФН 131 577–616 (1980); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0131.198008b.0577

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