Correlations of Rydberg excitations in an ultracold gas after an echo sequence
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S. Wüster,1,* J. Stanojevic,1 C. Ates,1 T. Pohl,1 P. Deuar,2 J. F. Corney,3 and J. M. Rost1 1Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany 2Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Aleja Lotników 32/46, PL-02-668 Warsaw, Poland 3ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia (Received 4 November 2009; published 8 February 2010)
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