Abstract
Toroidal dipole (anapole) moments and magnetic fields due to inversion symmetry breaking by an external electric field are studied for the alkali-metal atoms from Li to Rb. It is demonstrated that a hydrogenic atomic model is inadequate for this purpose, while a nonhydrogenic model based on the quantum-defect method yields numbers for the anapole moments in excellent agreement with those predicted by a semiempirical product rule.
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