Polarizabilities of Li and Na in Debye plasmas

Abstract

We have carried out calculations to investigate the effect of Debye plasmas on the dipole, quadrupole, octupole polarizabilities of lithium and sodium atoms using the symplectic algorithm in the framework of the pseudo-state summation technique. The polarizabilities of alkali-metal atoms for various Debye lengths are reported for the first time in the literature. The behavior of the transition energies and oscillator strengths for Li and Na in plasma environments is also presented. In free atomic cases, our calculated results are in good agreement with the reported theoretical and experimental results.