Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems
Article
2001
Reply to “Comment on ‘Phenomenological damping in optical response tensors’”
We show that damping factors must not be incorporated in the perturbation of the ground state by a static electric field. If they are included, as in the theory of Stedman et al. {[}preceding Comment. Phys. Rev. A 63, 047801 (2001)], then there would be an electric dipole in the y direction induced in a hydrogen atom in the M-s = + 1/2 state by a static electric field in the x direction. Such a dipole is excluded by symmetry.
| Author(s): | Buckingham, AD and Fischer, Peer |
| Journal: | PHYSICAL REVIEW A |
| Volume: | 63 |
| Number (issue): | 4 |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Bibtex Type: | Article (article) |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.047802 |
| Electronic Archiving: | grant_archive |
BibTex
@article{ISI:000168095300140,
title = {Reply to ``Comment on `Phenomenological damping in optical response tensors'{''}},
journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW A},
abstract = {We show that damping factors must not be incorporated in the perturbation of the ground state by a static electric field. If they are included, as in the theory of Stedman et al. {[}preceding Comment. Phys. Rev. A 63, 047801 (2001)], then there would be an electric dipole in the y direction induced in a hydrogen atom in the M-s = + 1/2 state by a static electric field in the x direction. Such a dipole is excluded by symmetry.},
volume = {63},
number = {4},
year = {2001},
slug = {isi-000168095300140},
author = {Buckingham, AD and Fischer, Peer}
}