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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 117, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.073202
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- UCL through its Impact Studentship Programme
- ERC [CIG 630119]
- EPSRC [EP/K028774/1]
- EPSRC [EP/K028774/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [1352353, EP/K028774/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We report experiments in which positronium (Ps) atoms were guided using inhomogeneous electric fields. Ps atoms in Rydberg-Stark states with principal quantum number n = 10 and electric dipole moments up to 610 D were prepared via two-color two-photon optical excitation in the presence of a 670 Vcm(-1) electric field. The Ps atoms were created at the entrance of a 0.4 m long electrostatic quadrupole guide, and were detected at the end of the guide via annihilation gamma radiation. When the lasers were tuned to excite low-field-seeking Stark states, a fivefold increase in the number of atoms reaching the end of the guide was observed, whereas no signal was detected when high-field-seeking states were produced. The data are consistent with the calculated geometrical guide acceptance.
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