Lamb shifts from intensity measurements

Ulrich D. Jentschura, Jörg Evers, Martin Haas +1 more

We discuss radiative corrections to an atomic two-level system subject to an intense driving laser field. It is shown that the Lamb shift of the laser-dressed states, which are the natural state basis of the combined atom-laser system, cannot be explained in terms of the Lamb shift received by the atomic bare states which is usually observed in spectroscopic experiments. In the final part, we propose an experimental scheme to measure these corrections based on the incoherent resonance fluorescence spectrum of the driven atom.

P. L. Knight

Jagdish S. Patel

A beam of unpolarized metastable He('+) 2s(, 1/2) ions, quenched by a static electric field, (')E has an anisotropy in the emitted radiation that can be used to determine the He('+) 2('2)s(, 1/2)-2('2)p(, 1/2) Lamb shift. A high precision measurement of this anisotropy for a field strength of (VBAR)(')E(VBAR) = (370.97 (+OR-) 0.06) V/cm has been made. The value of the field-free anisotropy, A('(0)), adjusted by small corrections is (0.1178082 (+OR-) 0.0000086), where the uncertainty is the statistical one standard deviation. Using much improved apparatus over Drake, Goldman and van Wijngaarden, our values for both the anisotropy A('(0)) and the Lamb shift, S = (14022.67 (+OR-) 1.06) MHz lie lower by 17 standard deviations from theirs. The great discrepancy is not understood, and may be attributed to the inherent difficulties of measuring light intensities by photon counting techniques. Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-09, Section: B, page: 3817. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1986.

E. D. Belokolos, V. Z. Enolski

S. Chaturvedi, P. Shanta, Venkatraman Srinivasan

We calculate the Lamb shift in the hydrogen atom in a thermal vacuum containing a squeezed mode using thermofield dynamics. We find finite corrections that depend on the temperature and the intensity of the squeezed mode.

R. J. Hill, S. F. Clifford