Theory of Final-State Coherence in Beam-Tilted-Foil Interactions
- 15 December 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 35 (24), 1626-1629
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.35.1626
Abstract
I propose a theory for the orientation and alignment of atomic states following atomicbeam passage through foils tilted through angle from normal incidence. The final encounters within the foil operate on the existing foil-induced alignment, producing orientation and altered alignment. Within theoretical limitation, tensorial components transforming as angular momentum components in the collision frame vary as , while those associated with the squares of components contain a dependence, in substantial agreeement with observation.
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