Collisional dephasing of the Natransition using the Ramsey method of separated rf fields
- 1 February 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 19 (2) , 820-825
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.19.820
Abstract
The collisional dephasing of the Na transition by Ne and CO has been investigated using the Ramsey method of separated radio-frequency fields. Upper limits for the dephasing cross sections are determined which are far smaller than the geometric size of the excited Na atoms. This leads to the conclusion that the separation of the potential cruves of the Na and states is nearly constant as a function of internuclear separation.
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