Dynamical polarizability of atoms in arbitrary light fields: general theory and application to cesium

2012/11/30 by Fam Le Kien, Philipp Schneeweiss, Arno Rauschenbeutel · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Caesium #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Electromagnetic field #Excited state #Field (mathematics) #Polarizability #Polarization (electrochemistry) #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Stark effect #Tensor (intrinsic definition) #Wave function #physics.atom-ph #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjd/e2013-30729-x

published as Eur. Phys. J. D 67:92 (2013) · see also Supplemental Material

arxiv created 2012/12/06 · openalex publication_date 2013/05/01 · arxiv updated 2015/03/12 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We present a systematic derivation of the dynamical polarizability and the ac Stark shift of the ground and excited states of atoms interacting with a far-off-resonance light field of arbitrary polarization. We calculate the scalar, vector, and tensor polarizabilities of atomic cesium using resonance wavelengths and reduced matrix elements for a large number of transitions. We analyze the properties of the fictitious magnetic field produced by the vector polarizability in conjunction with the ellipticity of the polarization of the light field.

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