An experimental atomic physicist who coauthored a 1952 report on optical pumping with Jean Brossel and Alfred Kastler. Selective absorption of light redistributes population among ground-state Zeeman effect sublevels, preparing an atomic ensemble whose magnetic-state populations differ from thermal equilibrium. This connects control of incident light to preparation and readout of atomic angular momentum.[ref]
Création optique d’une inégalité de population entre les sous-niveaux Zeeman de l’état fondamental des atomes by Jean Brossel and others. Publisher byline, title and optical-pumping classification
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