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Intercombination effects in resonant energy transfer

Vaillant, C.L.; Potvliege, R.M.; Jones, M.P.A.

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C.L. Vaillant



Abstract

We investigate the effect of intercombination transitions in excitation hopping processes such as those found in Förster resonance energy transfer. Taking strontium Rydberg states as our model system, the breakdown of LS coupling leads to weakly allowed transitions between Rydberg states of different spin quantum number. We show that the long-range interactions between two Rydberg atoms can be affected by these weakly allowed spin transitions, and the effect is greatest when there is a near degeneracy between the initial state and a state with a different spin quantum number. We also consider a case of four atoms in a spin chain and show that a spin impurity can resonantly hop along the chain. By engineering the many-body energy levels of the spin chain, the breakdown of LS coupling due to interelectronic effects in individual atoms can be mapped onto a spatial separation of the total spin and the total orbital angular momentum along the spin chain.

Citation

Vaillant, C., Potvliege, R., & Jones, M. (2015). Intercombination effects in resonant energy transfer. Physical Review A, 92(4), Article 042705. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.92.042705

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Sep 16, 2015
Online Publication Date Oct 14, 2015
Publication Date Oct 14, 2015
Deposit Date Oct 15, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Physical Review A
Print ISSN 1050-2947
Electronic ISSN 1094-1622
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 92
Issue 4
Article Number 042705
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.92.042705

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