{"paper":{"title":"Atom interferometry measurement of the electric polarizability of lithium","license":"","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"quant-ph","authors_text":"Alain Miffre (LCAR), G\\'erard Tr\\'enec (LCAR), Jacques Vigu\\'e (LCAR), Marion Jacquey (LCAR), Matthias B\\\"uchner (LCAR)","submitted_at":"2005-07-29T15:14:29Z","abstract_excerpt":"Using an atom interferometer, we have measured the static electric polarizability of $^7$Li $\\alpha =(24.33 \\pm 0.16)\\times10^{-30} $ m$^3$ $= 164.19\\pm 1.08 $ atomic units with a 0.66% uncertainty. Our experiment, which is similar to an experiment done on sodium in 1995 by D. Pritchard and co-workers, consists in applying an electric field on one of the two interfering beams and measuring the resulting phase-shift. With respect to D. Pritchard's experiment, we have made several improvements which are described in detail in this paper: the capacitor design is such that the electric field can b"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"quant-ph/0507279","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}