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Transition rates and radiative lifetimes of Ca I

Atomic Physics 2017-11-22 v2

Abstract

We tabulate spontaneous emission rates for all possible 811 electric-dipole-allowed transitions between the 75 lowest-energy states of Ca I. These involve the 4sns4sns (n=48n=4-8), 4snp4snp (n=47n=4-7), 4snd4snd (n=36n=3-6), 4snf4snf (n=46n=4-6), 4p24p^2, and 3d4p3d4p electronic configurations. We compile the transition rates by carrying out ab initio relativistic calculations using the combined method of configuration interaction and many-body perturbation theory. The results are compared to the available literature values. The tabulated rates can be useful in various applications, such as optimizing laser cooling in magneto-optical traps, estimating various systematic effects in optical clocks and evaluating static or dynamic polarizabilities and long-range atom-atom interaction coefficients and related atomic properties.

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@article{arxiv.1702.03473,
  title  = {Transition rates and radiative lifetimes of Ca I},
  author = {Yanmei Yu and Andrei Derevianko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.03473},
  year   = {2017}
}

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