Electric-field-induced redistribution of radiation transition probabilities in atomic multiplet lines

Abstract

Analytical dependences on a static electric field F0 are derived for the wavefunctions, matrix elements and probabilities of radiation transitions between multiplet substates interacting in field in pairs, ranging from ordinary doublet states with spin S = 1/2, pairwise interacting sublevels of triplet and quintet states with the magnetic quantum number M = 0, to the most general case of states with arbitrary angular L and spin S momenta and maximal magnitude of the magnetic quantum number |M| = L + S − 1. Equalization of doublet line intensities in the anticrossing field region and vanishing of one of the two doublet lines in the high-field regime are demonstrated. A general relation is determined between the anticrossing field FA, multiplet splitting and tensor polarizability. The data of numerical computations with the Fues' model potential for polarizabilities of triplet states in helium and doublet states in alkali atoms are extrapolated with a three-term polynomial including 5th, 6th and 7th powers of effective principal quantum number and providing accuracy better than 0.5% in a wide range of the principal quantum number n, up to n = 1000.