Issue |
EPL
Volume 98, Number 2, April 2012
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Article Number | 23001 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/98/23001 | |
Published online | 30 April 2012 |
Atom-surface interaction at the nanometre scale: van der Waals-Zeeman transitions in a magnetic field
1
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, CNRS-UMR 7538, Université Paris 13 - 99 av. J.B. Clément, Villetaneuse, France, EU
2
Umm Al-Qura University, Physics Department - PO Box 715, 21955-Makkah, Saudi Arabia
3
Institute of Physics - Pregrevica 118, 11080-Belgrade, Serbia
a
jacques.baudon@univ-paris13.fr
Received:
26
January
2012
Accepted:
23
March
2012
van der Waals-Zeeman transitions between magnetic states of metastable rare-gas atoms Ar*, Kr* and Xe* (3P2) induced by a solid surface in the presence of a magnetic field, are investigated theoretically and experimentally. By use of a Zeeman slower, metastable argon atoms with various velocities ranging from 170 to 560 m/s allow us to investigate the small impact parameter range (3–7 nm) within which these transitions occur, as well as the effect of atom polarisation on the sharing out of the M states.
PACS: 34.35.+a – Interactions of atoms and molecules with surfaces / 03.75.Be – Atom and neutron optics / 12.20.Fv – Experimental tests
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