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By William Happer

This prepared reference covers crucial proof approximately optical pumping and spin leisure of atoms. The authors convey that methodical use of Liouville house including glossy medical computing software program makes it sensible to research the complete, multilevel procedure of optically pumped atoms. Sections of MATLAB codes incorporated within the textual content enable the reader to gather fairly subtle codes for modelling quite a few optical-pumping phenomena. The textual content assumes that the reader has a uncomplicated realizing of quantum mechanics, atomic physics, optics, magnetic resonance, and the maths of physics and chemistry.

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14). When we need to avoid ambiguity, we use the superscript fcg (for “coupled”) to denote a matrix in the energy basis. 1). 17). The energy-basis versions of excited-state operators can be defined in like manner. In subsequent discussions, we will drop complicating superscripts or subscripts from symbols denoting matrices whenever the context makes the interpretation clear. For example, three possible interpretations of S z are: 1. an [S ] [S ] matrix S z operating on the vectors jm S i. 2. an [I ][S ] [I ][S ] matrix SJ z D 1fI g ˝ S z operating on the vectors jm S m I i.

1 Transposition Matrix As a first, simple example of a superoperator, we discuss the transposition matrix T. Recall that the density matrix must be Hermitian at all times. To discuss the implications of the fact that D † , it is convenient to introduce a g 2 g 2 transposition matrix, T, defined by T jμ ν) D jνμ) . 34) we see that the elements of T are either 0 or 1, so T is real. Also T is symmetric, so it is Hermitian. Finally, T is clearly its own inverse. In summary, the simple symmetries of T are T DT , T D T† and T2 D 1 .

Schuller [7] uses the operator M D ωQ in much the same way that we will use Q. The excited-state and ground-state projection operators, 1feg and 1fgg , in terms of which Q is defined are X X 1feg D j μih N μj N and 1fgg D jμihμj . 17) QD μN μ Here the sums extends over the eigenstates j μi N of H feg or jμi of H fgg . 2 Hyperfine structure parameters of the alkali-metal atoms. Frequencies are in megahertz. Most of these numbers are known to greater accuracy than given here. FI is the fractional abundance.

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