Creating and Detecting Shaped Rydberg Wave Packets
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Jeffrey L. Krause,1 Kenneth J. Schafer,2 M. Ben-Nun,3 and Kent R. Wilson3 1Quantum Theory Project, P.O. Box 118435, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611-8435 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4001 3Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093 (Received 8 November 1996)
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