Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-1992

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.3432

Publication Title

Physical Review Letters

Volume

68

Issue

23

Pages

3432-3435

Abstract

The authors have measured by laser spectroscopy the energy of interaction between a sodium atom and its images in the walls of a micron-sized cavity. This cavity-QED study is the first direct quantitative test of the Lennard-Jones van der Waals interaction as a function of controlled atom-surface separation and mean-square electric dipole moment.

Original Publication Citation

Sandoghdar, V., Sukenik, C.I., Hinds, E.A., & Haroche, S. (1992). Direct measurement of the van der Waals interaction between an atom and its images in a micron-sized cavity. Physical Review Letters, 68(23), 3432-3435. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.3432

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