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Reconciliation of experimental and theoretical electric tensor polarizabilities of the cesium ground state

  • Ulzega, Simone Physics Department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Hofer, Adrian Physics Department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Moroshkin, Peter Physics Department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
  • Weis, Antoine Physics Department, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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    16.11.2006
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  • Europhysics Letters. - 2006, vol. 76, no. 6, p. 1074-1080
Zeeman and Stark effects
perturbation theory
time and frequency
English We present a new theoretical analysis of the strongly suppressed F- and M-dependent Stark shifts of the Cs ground-state hyperfine structure. Our treatment uses third-order perturbation theory including off-diagonal hyperfine interactions not considered in earlier treatments. A numerical evaluation of the perturbation sum using bound states up to n = 200 yields ground-state tensor polarizabilities α₂(6S1/2,F) which are in good agreement with experimental values, thereby bridging the 40-year-old gap between experiments and theory. We have further found that the tensor polarizabilities of the two ground-state hyperfine manifolds have opposite signs, in disagreement with an earlier derivation. This sign error has a direct implication for the precise evaluation of the blackbody radiation shift in primary frequency standards.
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Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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Département de Physique
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  • English
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Physics
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