Electric dipole polarizabilities of Rydberg states of alkali atoms

Abstract

Calculations of the static electric-dipole scalar and tensor polarizabilities are presented for two alkali atoms, Rb and Cs, for the $nS$, $n{P}_{1/2,3/2}$, and $n{D}_{3/2,5/2}$ states with large principal quantum numbers up to $n=50$. The calculations are performed within an effective one-electron approximation, based on the Dirac-Fock Hamiltonian with a semi-empirical core-polarization potential. The obtained results are compared with those from a simpler semi-empirical approach and with available experimental data.

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