Energy shifts of Rydberg atoms due to patch fields near metal surfaces

Details Energy shifts of Rydberg atoms due to patch fields near metal surfaces Energy shifts of Rydberg atoms due to patch fields near metal surfaces

2010-08-09

arxiv.org/abs/1008.1533v3

Physics

Atomic Physics

7 pages, 2 figures, Revised version contains an illustrative scanning electron microscope image

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.83.032902

The statistical properties of patch electric fields due to a polycrystalline metal surface are calculated. The fluctuations in the electric field scale like 1/z^2, when z >> w, where z is the distance to the surface, and w is the characteristic length scale of the surface patches. For typical thermally evaporated gold surfaces these field fluctuations are comparable to the image field of an elementary charge, and scale in the same way with distance to the surface. Expressions for calculating the statistics of the inhomogeneous broadening of Rydberg atom energies due to patch electric fields are presented. Spatial variations in the patch fields over the Rydberg orbit are found to be insignificant.

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