Optics and Spectroscopy
Collisions with Participation of Polarized Cesium and Lithium Alkali Atoms
Victor A. Kartoshkin
Abstract
Abstract The spin-exchange cross sections and the magnetic resonance frequency shift in collision of lithium and cesium atoms in the ground state are calculated. The calculations are performed based on the data on the singlet ($$X{}^{1}{{\Sigma }^{ + }}$$) and triplet ($$a{}^{3}{{\Sigma }^{ + }}$$) interaction potentials of 7Li 133Cs dimer. The passage from the energy dependences of the real and imaginary parts of the complex spin-exchange cross section to the temperature dependences makes it possible to obtain information on both the broadening and the frequency shift of the magnetic resonance line in collisions of the atoms under study.