https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530170227
Polarizabilities of rubidium (9-10)S1/2 and 8D3/2,5/2 states
Physics Dept., Petrie Bldg., York University, 4700 Keele St.,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
Corresponding author: a wvw@yorku.ca
Received:
7
September
2000
Revised:
6
December
2000
Published online: 15 April 2001
Polarizabilities of several rubidium states were determined by measuring stark shifts of
transitions using an electro-optically modulated laser beam to excite an atomic beam.
The voltage required for atoms excited by the laser beam in an electric field to be
simultaneously in resonance as atoms excited by a frequency sideband of the laser in a
field free region was measured. The scalar 
and tensor 
polarizabilities were found to
be: 
, 
,
and 
,
and 
MHz/(kV/cm)2. The
results are 100 times more accurate than previous measurements and are within 1% of those found theoretically using a
Coulomb approximation calculation.
PACS: 32.60.+i – Zeeman and Stark effects / 32.10.Dk – Electric and magnetic moments, polarizability / 39.30.+w – Spectroscopic techniques
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2001
