Interference between two resonant transitions with distinct initial and final states connected by radiative decay

2017/09/18 by A. Marsman, Marko Horbatsch, M. Horbatsch +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Chemical Physics Studies #Atomic and Molecular Physics #Atomic physics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Interference (communication) #Lamb shift #Physics #Population #Quantum mechanics #Radiative transfer #Resonance (particle physics) #State (computer science) #physics.atom-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.96.062111

published as Phys. Rev. A 96, 062111 (2017) · 4 figures

arxiv created 2017/09/18 · openalex publication_date 2017/12/11 · arxiv updated 2017/12/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

It is demonstrated that the spectroscopy of a resonant transition can be altered by a nonvanishing population of the system in states away from the transition, so long as those states can radiatively decay into the states involved in the resonant transition. This finding identifies a systematic effect that can be important to precision measurements.

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