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The population of a beam of lithium atoms has been transferred from a low angular momentum Rydberg state to a state with |m|=n-1, with nearly 100% efficiency. Selective field ionization is employed to detect the high |m| state. Transfer occurs by a series of adiabatic rapid passages; it can also occur by a single multiphoton process.
Hulet et al. (1983) studied this question.