Theoretical Analysis of Level Crossing in a 2P Atomic State
Abstract
Two approaches to the analysis of level crossing are presented. A theoretical approach utilizes values of the hyperfine coupling constants to predict the entire level structure of a system, including all level-crossing data of interest. A second approach suggests a procedure for determining hyperfine parameters with reasonable accuracy, based on three or four measured quantities. Results of this procedure in 2 2P lithium give the contact, dipole, and orbital hyperfine coupling constants as -9.806 +/- 0.117, -1.909 +/- 0.034, and 8.638 +/- 0.39 MHz, respectively. This work reemphasizes the fact that an accurate determination of magnetic hfs requires three parameters to fully define the three independent magnetic hyperfine interactions.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- December 1970
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.2.2250
- Bibcode:
- 1970PhRvA...2.2250L