Electric Field Induced Symmetry Breaking of Angular Momentum Distribution in Atoms

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2006-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0603194v1

Physics

Atomic Physics

4 pages with 4 figures (6 postscript files), submitted to Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.043002

We report the experimental observation of alignment to orientation conversion in the 7D_3/2 and 9D_3/2 states of Cs in the presence of an external dc electric field, and without the influence of magnetic fields or atomic collisions. Initial alignment of angular momentum states was created by two-step excitation with linearly polarized laser radiation. The appearance of transverse orientation of angular momentum was confirmed by the observation of circularly polarized light. We present experimentally measured signals and compare them with the results of a detailed theoretical model based on the optical Bloch equations.

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