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VOLUME 30 (1979) | ISSUE 6 | PAGE 330
Collisional orientation of atoms and molecules in a resonance light field
It is shown that as a result of interaction with circularly polarized light the absorbing particles as a whole acquire an orientation induced by collisions with the buffer gas. At high pressures and large rotational quantum numbers the collisional orientation dominates over the known optical orientation.