Pressure effects on the absorption spectra of Na doped in solid Ar

In this work, the pressure influence on the absorption spectra of Na in solid Ar for various trapping sites is extensively investigated atT=10 K and in the pressure range from 0 to 2.4 GPa by using Monte Carlo method with a constant pressure ensemble (NPT). For the trapping sites ofn _v=1, 2, the absorption spectral widths increase progressively, the absorption peaks and the centroid spectral shift (CSS) tend to have a red shift with pressure increasing, even though there is no local structural symmetry change around Na atom caused by pressure. Highly symmetrical trapping site structure (n _v=1) determines a highly symmetrical triplet absorption feature at a low pressure. With the increase in pressure, the action from the Ar crystal field on the three energy levels of the 3p excited state of Na atom increases, resulting in the overlap of the three peaks. Low symmetrical trapping site structure (n _v=2) yields a low symmetrical triplet absorption pattern in which a large separation between the “single” and the “double” peaks exists at a low pressure. With the increase in pressure, the splitting between the singlet and the doublet increases, and the doublet merges as the pressure is larger than 2.4 GPa.