Breakdown of atomic hyperfine coupling in a deep optical-dipole trap
Atomic Physics
2015-11-20 v2
Abstract
We experimentally study the breakdown of hyperfine coupling for an atom in a deep optical-dipole trap. One-color laser spectroscopy is performed at the resonance lines of a single Rb atom for a trap wavelength of 1064 nm. Evidence of hyperfine breakdown comes from three observations, namely a nonlinear dependence of the transition frequencies on the trap intensity, a splitting of lines which are degenerate for small intensities, and the ability to drive transitions which would be forbidden by selection rules in the absence of hyperfine breakdown. From the data, we infer the hyperfine interval of the state and the scalar and tensor polarizabilities for the state.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1508.00758,
title = {Breakdown of atomic hyperfine coupling in a deep optical-dipole trap},
author = {Andreas Neuzner and Matthias Körber and Stephan Dürr and Gerhard Rempe and Stephan Ritter},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.00758},
year = {2015}
}