A detailed comparison between experimental lifetimes for Rydberg atoms formed by the adiabatic crossed-6eld method and corresponding theoretical lifetimes has been performed to document that the crossed-6eld method indeed may be used to generate and control coherent elliptic states of highly excited Rydberg atoms. It is found that core efFects play a negligible role except for states of very high eccentricity.
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