On the Possibility of Detecting the Transverse Component of the Hexadecapole Moment of Atoms in Fluorescent Emission

摘要

It is shown that the hexadecapole moment of normal atoms can be indirectly observed with high efficiency by detecting the alignment of excited atoms. An estimate is made of the efficiency of this method of observation of the transverse component of the hexadecapole moment produced under excitation of the four-quantum transition used in quantum magnetometers.