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The heading error has been known to be caused mainly by the nonlinear Zeeman effect and the orientation-dependent light shift. In this work, we find that the nuclear Zeeman effect can also have a significant impact on the heading errors,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-21 Yue Chang , Yu-Hao Guo , Shuang-Ai Wan , Jie Qin

We use the dressed atom formalism to calculate the frequency shift in a hydrogen maser induced by applied radiation near the Zeeman frequency, and find excellent agreement with a previous calculation made in the bare atom basis. The maser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. A. Humphrey , D. F. Phillips , R. L. Walsworth

Zeeman deceleration is an experimental technique in which inhomogeneous, time-dependent magnetic fields generated inside an array of solenoid coils are used to manipulate the velocity of a supersonic beam. A 12-stage Zeeman decelerator has…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Katrin Dulitz , Michael Motsch , Nicolas Vanhaecke , Timothy P. Softley

Selective Reflection (SR) spectroscopy of the $6s$ $^2S_{1/2} \rightarrow$ $7p$ $^2P_{3/2}$ electric dipole transition of Cesium ($\lambda~=~456$ nm) is performed for the first time using a nanometric-thin cell ($L=50 - 1500$~nm). We…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Armen Sargsyan , Rodolphe Momier , David Sarkisyan

We demonstrate the effect of Zeeman and hyperfine optical pumping and transverse laser cooling of a dysprosium (Dy) atomic beam on the $4f^{10}6s^2(J = 8) \rightarrow 4f^{10}6s6p(J = 9)$ transition at 421.291 nm. For $^{163}$Dy, an…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Rohan Chakravarthy , Jonathan Agil , Arijit Sharma , Jung Bog Kim , Dmitry Budker

We present a novel slowing scheme for beams of laser-coolable diatomic molecules reminiscent of Zeeman slowing of atomic beams. The scheme results in efficient compression of the 1-dimensional velocity distribution to velocities trappable…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Maurice Petzold , Paul Kaebert , Philipp Gersema , Mirco Siercke , Silke Ospelkaus

Simple and efficient "\lambda-method" and "\lambda/2-method" (\lambda is the resonant wavelength of laser radiation) based on nanometric-thickness cell filled with rubidium are implemented to study the splitting of hyperfine transitions of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Sargsyan , G. Hakhumyan , C. Leroy , Y. Pashayan-Leroy , A. Papoyan , D. Sarkisyan , M. Auzinsh

We realize the first Zeeman slower of an atom in the Main Group III of the periodic table, otherwise known as the "triel elements". Despite that our atom of choice (namely indium) does not have a ground state cycling transition suitable for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Xianquan Yu , Jinchao Mo , Tiangao Lu , Ting You Tan , Travis L. Nicholson

We compute the interaction of a sodium vapor with a static magnetic field ranging from 0 up to 1 Tesla, which allows to obtain the behavior of all Zeeman transitions as a function of the magnetic field for any polarization of incident laser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Rodolphe Momier , Aram V. Papoyan , Claude Leroy

We present an experimental and theoretical study of a scalar atomic magnetometer using an oscillating field-driven Zeeman resonance in a high-density optically-pumped potassium vapor. We describe an experimental implementation of an atomic…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2013-05-29 S. J. Smullin , I. M. Savukov , G. Vasilakis , R. K. Ghosh , M. V. Romalis

In many important situations the dominant dephasing mechanism in cryogenic rare-earth-ion doped systems is due to magnetic field fluctuations from spins in the host crystal. Operating at a magnetic field where a transition has a zero…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 D. L. McAuslan , J. G. Bartholomew , M. J. Sellars , J. J. Longdell

Precision spectroscopic measurements in atoms and molecules play an increasingly important role in chemistry and physics, e.g., to characterize structure and dynamics at long timescales, to determine physical constants, or to search for…

A transverse Zeeman slower composed of an array of compact discrete neodymium magnets is considered. A simple and precise model of such a slower based on magnetic dipoles is developed. The theory of a general Zeeman slower is modified to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuri B. Ovchinnikov

Atom interferometry using stimulated Raman transitions in a retroreflected configuration is the first choice in high precision measurements because it provides low phase noise, high quality Raman wavefront and simple experimental setup.…

The impact of the optical field polarization on the spectrum of magnetically-induced transitions, a class of transitions forbidden at zero magnetic field, is studied with a weak-probe sub-Doppler technique. The high spectral resolution of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 A. Sargsyan , E. Klinger , A. Amiryan , D. Sarkisyan

An efficient $\lambda/2$-method ($\lambda$ is the resonant wavelength of laser radiation) based on nanometric-thickness cell filled with rubidium is implemented to study the splitting of hyperfine transitions of $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Sargsyan , A. Tonoyan , G. Hakhumyan , C. Leroy , Y. Pashayan-Leroy , D. Sarkisyan

We evaluate the impact that nonlinear Zeeman shifts have on resonant radio-frequency (RF) dressed traps in an atom-chip configuration. The degeneracy of the resonance between Zeeman levels is lifted at large intensities of a static field,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-01-04 G. Sinuco-León , B. M. Garraway

We study the peformances of Raman velocimetry applied to laser-cooled, spin-polarized, cesium atoms. Atoms are optically pumped into the F=4, m=0 ground-state Zeeman sublevel, which is insensitive to magnetic perturbations. High resolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Julien Chabé , Hans Lignier , Pascal Szriftgiser , Jean Claude Garreau

The Zeeman effect, a fundamental quantum phenomenon, demonstrates the interaction between magnetic fields and atomic systems. While precise spectroscopic measurements of this effect have advanced significantly, there remains a lack of…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-05-19 Shao-Han Qin , Yu-Han Ma

We propose a method to continuously frequency shift a target laser that is frequency stabilized by a reference laser, which is several hundreds of nanometers detuned. We demonstrate the technique using the 5S 1/2 to 5P 3/2 to 29D 5/2…