Abstract
Collisions of atoms in superpositions of dissimilar states have special significance in that, classically, each state follows a different trajectory. Hence the scattering of such a system as a unit has no classical analog and is of fundamental interest. We report studies of velocity-changing collision kernels in 174Yb for two types of superposition states: optical radiators, consisting of a ground S state and an excited P state, and P-state multipole moments, involving magnetic substate superpositions.
© 1984 Optical Society of America
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