Progress toward the $\mathcal{P}$, $\mathcal{T}$-odd Faraday effect: Light absorption by atoms briefly interacting with a laser beam

Dmitry V. Chubukov, Ivan A. Aleksandrov, Leonid V. Skripnikov +1

We investigate the process of photon absorption by atoms or molecules shortly interacting with a laser beam in the dipole approximation. Assuming that the interaction time $\tau$ is m…