https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60321-0
Regular Article
Photon Hall scattering from alkaline-earth-like atoms and alkali-like ions
1 Université Grenoble-Alpes, Laboratoire de Physique et de Modélisation des Milieux Condensés, Grenoble, France
2 CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique et de Modélisation des Milieux Condensés , Grenoble, France
3 MajuLab, CNRS-Université de Nice-NUS-NTU, International Joint Research Unit UMI 3654, Singapore, Singapore
4 Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, 117543, Singapore, Singapore
5 School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, 637371, Singapore, Singapore
a e-mail: bart.van-tiggelen@grenoble.cnrs.fr
Received: 12 October 2016
Revised: 11 January 2017
Published online: 25 May 2017
We investigate the possibility of observing a magneto-transverse scattering of photons from alkaline-earth-like atoms as well as alkali-like ions and provide orders of magnitude. The transverse magneto-scattering is physically induced by the interference between two possible quantum transitions of an outer electron in a S state, one dispersive electric-dipole transition to a P orbital state and a second resonant electric-quadrupole transition to a D orbital state. In contrast with previous mechanisms proposed for such an atomic photonic Hall effect, no real photons are scattered by the electric-dipole allowed transition, which increases the ratio of Hall current to background photons significantly. The main experimental challenge is to overcome the small detection threshold, with only 10−5 photons scattered per atom per second.
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