Abstract
We evaluate the electric-dipole and electric-quadrupole static and dynamic polarizabilities for the , , and states and estimate their uncertainties. A first-principles relativistic method is developed for an accurate calculation of the van der Waals coefficients of dimers involving excited-state atoms with strong decay channel to the ground state. This method is used for evaluation of the long-range interaction coefficients of particular experimental interest, including the coefficients for the Yb-Yb and dimers and coefficients for the and dimers.
- Received 9 July 2013
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.89.012711
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