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Dynamic dipole polarizabilities for the low-lying triplet states of helium

Atomic Physics 2015-03-26 v1

Abstract

The dynamic dipole polarizabilities for the four lowest triplet states (23S2\,^3S, 33S3\,^3S, 23P2\,^3P and 33P3\,^3P) of helium are calculated using the B-spline configuration interaction method. Present values of the static dipole polarizabilities in the length, velocity and acceleration gauges are in good agreement with the best Hylleraas results. Also the tune-out wavelengths in the range from 400 nm to 4.2~μ\mum for the four lowest triplet states are identified, and the magic wavelengths in the range from 460~nm to 3.5~μ\mum for the 23S33S2\,^3S \to 3\,^3S, 23S23P2\,^3S \to 2\,^3P, and 23S33P2\,^3S \to 3\,^3P transitions are determined. We show that the tune-out wavelength of 23S2\,^3S state is 413.038 28(3) nm, which corroborates the value of Mitroy and Tang (Phys. Rev. A 88, 052515 (2013)), and the magic wavelength around 1066 nm for the 23S33P2\,^3S \to 3\,^3P transition can be expected for precision measurement to determine the ratio of transition matrix elements (23S23P)/(33P63S)(2\,^3S \to 2\,^3P) / (3\,^3P\to 6\,^3S).

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@article{arxiv.1503.07300,
  title  = {Dynamic dipole polarizabilities for the low-lying triplet states of helium},
  author = {Yong-Hui Zhang and Li-Yan Tang and Xian-Zhou Zhang and Ting-Yun Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.07300},
  year   = {2015}
}

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19 pages, 6 figures