1998/01/30 by David DeMille, DeMille, David, M. G. Kozlov +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) #Atomic and Molecular Physics #FOS: Physical sciences #Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies #physics.atom-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/9801034
REVTEX, 7 pages, no figures. Now accepted to PRA. One reference added, few other minor changes made
openalex publication_date 1998/01/30 · arxiv created 1998/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Stark-induced electric dipole amplitudes between states of the same nominal parity can be important in experiments to observe parity nonconservation in atoms. The Stark-induced E1 amplitudes are expressed in terms of an irreducible spherical-tensor decomposition. This formalism is applied to the specific case of transitions between hyperfine sublevels of a single atomic state. It is shown that in the ground states of alkali atoms, such transitions are suppressed by many orders of magnitude relative to naive expectations.