The bound state spectrum of the low-lying triplet states in the Be atom is investigated. In particular, we perform accurate computations of the bound triplet
S,
P,
D,
F and
G states in the four-electron Be atom. The results of these calculations are employed to draw the spectral diagram which contains the energy levels of the triplet states of Be atom. Based on our computational results we can observe transitions from the low-lying bound states to the weakly-bound, Rydberg states. For the
23S and
33S states in the Be atom we also determine a number of bound states properties and discuss the hyperfine structure by using our results of highly accurate computations.
We perform accurate calculations of energy levels as well as fine and hyperfine splittings of the lowest
1,3PJ,3S1,3PJe, and
1,3DJ excited states of the
9Be atom using explicitly correlated Gaussian functions, and we report on the breakdown of the standard hyperfine structure theory. Because of the strong hyperfine mixing, which prevents the use of common hyperfine constants, we formulate a description of the fine and hyperfine structure that is valid for an arbitrary coupling strength and may have wide applications in many other atomic systems.
The bound state properties of the ground 1 1S(L=0) state and the lowest triplet 2 3S(L=0) state of the 3He, 4He, and infinityHe helium atoms are determined to very high accuracy from the results of direct numerical computations. To compute the bound state properties of these atoms the author applied his exponential variational expansion in relative/perimetric three-body coordinates. For the ground 1 1S(L=0) state and the lowest triplet 2 3S(L=0) state of the 3He, 4He, and infinityHe atoms the author also determined the lowest order QED corrections and the field component of isotopic shift (=field shift). For the 2 3S(L=0) state of the 3He atom the hyperfine structure splitting is evaluated. The considered properties of the ground 1 1S state and the lowest 2 3S state in the 3He and 4He atoms are of great interest in a number of applications.
A combined experimental and theoretical spectroscopic study of high-$n, 30\ensuremath{\lesssim}n\ensuremath{\lesssim}100$, triplet
S and
D Rydberg states in
87Sr is presented.
87Sr has a large nuclear spin
I=9/2, and at high-
n the hyperfine interaction becomes comparable to, or even larger than, the fine structure and singlet-triplet splittings, which poses a considerable challenge both for precision spectroscopy and for theory. For high-
nS states, the hyperfine shifts are evaluated nonperturbatively, taking advantage of earlier spectroscopic data for the
I=0 isotope
88Sr, which results in good agreement with the present measurements. For the
D states, this procedure is reversed by first extracting from the present
87Sr measurements the energies of the
3D1,2,3 states to be expected for isotopes without hyperfine structure (
88Sr), which allows the determination of corrected quantum defects in the high-
n limit.
Precision measurements of Rydberg Stark levels of
7Li atoms are used to determine the 3
2S hyperfine separation, \ensuremath{\Delta}
Ehf(3
2S). Three diode lasers at \ensuremath{\lambda}=671 nm, 813 nm, and 633 nm excite
7Li atoms to n=15 sublevels in the presence of an electric field. Photoionization resonances at fields below the saddle point are used in conjunction with matrix diagonalization calculations to determine the binding energy of levels excited from each 3
2S hyperfine sublevel. The difference between the two fitted binding energies excited from 3
2S (F=1) and 3
2S (F=2) yields 189.36(43) MHz for \ensuremath{\Delta}
Ehf(3
2S
;7Li).