Motion-Induced Magnetic Resonance of Rb Atoms in a Periodic Magnetostatic Field
arXiv:physics/0510270 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.253003
Abstract
We demonstrate that transitions between Zeeman-split sublevels of Rb atoms are resonantly induced by the motion of the atoms (velocity: about 100 m/s) in a periodic magnetostatic field (period: 1 mm) when the Zeeman splitting corresponds to the frequency of the magnetic field experienced by the moving atoms. A circularly polarized laser beam polarizes Rb atoms with a velocity selected using the Doppler effect and detects their magnetic resonance in a thin cell, to which the periodic field is applied with the arrays of parallel current-carrying wires.
arXiv comment4 pages, 4 figures; minor corrections, Ref. [9] removed, published in PRL
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