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Past exam of the quantum, atomic and molecular physics course of the University of Oxford 2016 1 d Solution by
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In the regime of weak-field Zeeman splitting, remain good labels and . For the 393.4 nm line, in and in . The Landé g-factors are and . Apply to the four upper and two lower sublevels. The allowed pairs areTheir frequency displacements in units of are respectively , so none coincide. Looking perpendicular to the field permits both the radiation from transitions and the radiation from transitions. ConsequentlyA linear polarizer parallel to the field isolates the two components; a transverse polarizer selects the four components. Without polarization selection both sets are present. This count assumes a field small compared with fine structure coupling and neglects isotope-dependent hyperfine structure; the strong-field Paschen-Back effect or a resolved nonzero-spin isotope would require a different model. The spectral spacings are unnecessary for the count, but the distinct shifts verify that counting allowed transitions does not inadvertently count degenerate lines twice.
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