Selection rules and centre-of-mass motion of ultracold atoms
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In recent yeam much aaention has been paid to the quantized evolution of the centreof-mass momentum and position of ultracold atoms in light fields. We consider the effects resulting from the quantization of the extemal angular momentum variables. We investigate how spin and orbital angular momentum of light are transferred to internal and extemal angular momenhlm of an atom in dipole and quadrupole h'ansitions.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002