Lithium electric dipole polarizability

2011; American Physical Society; Volume: 84; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physreva.84.052518

ISSN

1538-4446

Autores

Mariusz Puchalski, Dariusz Kędziera, Krzysztof Pachucki,

Tópico(s)

Atomic and Molecular Physics

Resumo

The electric dipole polarizability of the lithium atom in the ground state is calculated including relativistic and quantum electrodynamics corrections. The obtained result ${\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{E}=164.0740(5)$ a.u. is in good agreement with the less accurate experimental value of $164.19(1.08)$ a.u. The small uncertainty of about 3 parts per ${10}^{6}$ comes from the approximate treatment of quantum electrodynamics corrections. Our theoretical result can be considered as a benchmark for more general atomic structure methods and may serve as a reference value for the relative measurement of polarizabilities of the other alkali-metal atoms.

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