Low-field diamagnetism in helium Rydberg states
- 14 August 1992
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Vol. 25 (15) , 3295-3305
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/25/15/011
Abstract
In a CW laser-atomic beam experiment metastable helium atoms are excited to Rydberg states (n=58) in a magnetic field ( approximately=0.1 T). The observed l-mixing spectra are reproduced using the method of diagonalization of the energy matrix as well as semiclassical theories. Also the first anticrossing between n=70 and 71 manifolds is measured accurately and is compared with calculations.Keywords
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