In the documentation for AlkaliAtom.getBranchingRatio (possibly other implementations of getBranchingRatio as well) the expression for the branching ratio is expressed in terms of the hyperfine reduced dipole matrix element, suggesting the quantity has units of [C][m].
A comment in the source code clarifies that it is expressed in units of the fine reduced diple matrix element, making the quantity unitless, as expected.
Could this be added to the function documentation? changing $|\langle j_e, f_e||er||j_g,f_g\rangle|^2$ to $|\langle j_e, f_e||er||j_g,f_g\rangle|^2/|\langle j_e || er || j_g \rangle |^2$
In the documentation for
AlkaliAtom.getBranchingRatio
(possibly other implementations ofgetBranchingRatio
as well) the expression for the branching ratio is expressed in terms of the hyperfine reduced dipole matrix element, suggesting the quantity has units of [C][m].A comment in the source code clarifies that it is expressed in units of the fine reduced diple matrix element, making the quantity unitless, as expected.
Could this be added to the function documentation? changing $|\langle j_e, f_e||er||j_g,f_g\rangle|^2$ to $|\langle j_e, f_e||er||j_g,f_g\rangle|^2/|\langle j_e || er || j_g \rangle |^2$