Orientation of Atoms by Collisions with Inclined Surfaces
- 1 November 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 37 (18), 1212-1215
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.37.1212
Abstract
We have measured large orientations for Ar II states excited by 300-keV impact on solid Cu surfaces at grazing incidence. We report circulary polarized light fractions of up to 76% and interpret the excitation mechanism as an orbital-angular-momentum effect. As an application of this new excitation scheme, a zero-field level-crossing experiment is presented.
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