Sodium D-line Zeeman pattern
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Neglect hyperfine structure and use a magnetic field weak compared with the spin-orbit interaction. The sodium D doublet has transitions and . Their Landé g-factors are , and respectively. With denoting upper and lower magnetic labels, the photon shift isThe first transition has four allowed shifts ; the second has six, . The most blue-shifted component of the second is , with shift . The apparently larger shift is excluded by the electric-dipole selection rule. The level lies above , so in this weak-field model the component also has the shortest wavelength of the whole doublet. [ref]
https://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/Handbook/Tables/sodiumtable5.htm. NIST, Energy Levels of Neutral Sodium, ordering of the two 3p fine-structure levels
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