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Hyperfine effects on potassium tune-out wavelengths and polarizabilities

Atomic Physics 2015-06-16 v2

Abstract

The influence of hyperfine interactions on the tune-out wavelengths of the 39,40,41^{39,40,41}K isotopes of the potassium atom was investigated. The hyperfine interaction of the 4s1/24s_{1/2} state result in a shift and splitting of the primary tune-out wavelength near 769 nm. The 4s1/24s_{1/2} ground state hyperfine splittings of the primary tune-out were almost equal to the hyperfine splittings of the ground states. The splittings in the wavelengths were 0.0008, 0.0027 and 0.0005 nm for 39^{39}K, 40^{40}K and 41^{41}K respectively. The hyperfine splitting of the npJnp_{J} levels leads to the creation of additional tune-out wavelengths. The additional tune-out wavelengths could be difficult to detect due to very small differences from the transition wavelengths to the 4pJ,F4p_{J,F} states. The hyperfine Stark shift for the ground states of all three isotopes were also computed and the value for 30^{30}K was found to be compatible with the previous experiments and the most recent calculation using relativistic many body perturbation theory.

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@article{arxiv.1308.0407,
  title  = {Hyperfine effects on potassium tune-out wavelengths and polarizabilities},
  author = {Jun Jiang and J. Mitroy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.0407},
  year   = {2015}
}