Method of Direct Detection and Investigation of Long-Lived Excited States of Singly and Multiply Charged Ions of Transition and Rare-Earth Metals

JETP Letters - A method has been proposed for the direct detection and study of long-lived excited states of singly and multiply charged ions of transition and rare earth metals. It allows both the...     

Doubly Excited 1,3Fe States of Two-Electron Atoms under Weakly Coupled Plasma Environment *

Precise energy eigenvalues of metastable bound doubly excited $^{1,3}{\rm F}^{e}$ states originating from $2pnf$,($n=4$--6) configuration of helium-like ions $(Z=\text{2--4})$ under weakly coupled plasma (WCP) environment have been estimated within the framework of Ritz variational method. The wavefunction is expanded in explicitly correlated Hylleraas type basis set. The screened Coulomb potential is considered mimic the WCP environment. The atomic systems tend towards gradual instability and the number of excited metastable bound states reduces with increasing plasma strength. The wavelengths corresponding to $2pnf (^{1,3}{\rm F}^{e}) \rightarrow 2pn^\prime d (^{1,3}{\rm D}^{o})$ ($n=4$--6; $n^\prime=3$--6) transitions occurring between doubly excited states of plasma embedded two-electron ions are also reported.     

Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Polymer Systems Doped with Rare-Earth Metal Ions and Their Complexes

Abstract

There has been an increased attention to explore the possibility of using polymer materials with rare-earth (RE) metal ions and their complexes as potential optical materials due to their capability of exhibiting novel and unusual properties. The fluorescence characteristics of polymer systems doped with RE metal ions and/or their complexes were analyzed and the effects of the doping metal ion/metal complexes as well as nature of the material were discussed. Electron transitions of REs can be manipulated by efficient ligand designs and proper doping into the polymer matrix. Emphasis was especially focused on the accommodation of the metal ion/metal complex in polymer matrix as well as its role in fluorescence. The photochemistry of the fluorescent polymer matrices with RE complexes is expected to open up frontier fields that lie between photophysics and materials science. Recent developments on a new aspect of these technologies related to the fluorescence dynamics in polymer analysis will also be discussed in this present review.     

Radiationless Energy Transfer Between Rare-Earth Ions in Solutions and its Application to the Investigation of Complexation Processes

Radiationless energy transfer between rare-earth ions (Ln³⁺) in solutions has some features: 1) the electronic transitions in Ln³⁺ complexes causing the luminescence of energy donor and the absorption of energy acceptors are forbidden by Laporte's rule and are weakly intensive. Therefore the critical radius (R_o) of energy transfer between the rare-earth ions for dipole-dipole mechanism is close to that for exchange-resonant mechanism. This fact presents difficulties for unequivocal interpretation of the energy transfer mechanism. 2) The plus-three lanthanide ions exist in solution as a set of complexes with different number of charged ligands in the inner coordination sphere and hence with different total charge of complexes.     

Analysis of the Light-Flavor Scalar and Axial-Vector Diquark States with QCD Sum Rules

In this article, we study the light-flavor scalar and axial-vector diquark states in the vacuum and in the nuclear matter using the QCD sum rules in a systematic way, and make reasonable predictions for their masses in the vacuum and in the nuclear matter.     

Analysis of the Triply Heavy Baryon States with QCD Sum Rules

In this article, we study the (1/2) ± and (3/2)± triply heavy baryon states in a systematic way by subtracting the contributions from the corresponding (1/2)■ and (3/2)■ triply heavy baryon states with the QCD sum rules, and make reasonable predictions for their masses.     

锂分子里德堡态和双激发态的重新分类

根据里德堡轨道的类氢nλ特性 ,对 7Li2 实验已观测到的和理论计算给出的 6 8个电子态进行了分类 ,把这些态划分为核实贯穿里德堡态和核实非贯穿里德堡态 .讨论了双电子激发态和里德堡态的微扰 ,也讨论了这种分类的意义     

Properties of Superposit ion of Displaced Number States and Their Interaction with Two-Level Atoms

We obtain the compact form of matrix elements of displacement operator between number states which is convenient for numerical computations by invoking the generalized Hypergeometric functions. The nonclassical properties of superposition of displaced number states and generation of them in Kerr medium are studied in detail. The evolution of atomic population inversion in the intensity-dependent Jaynes-Cummings model with the present superposition states as its input is also investigated.     

The Effect of Ammonia Ions on the Absorption and Fluorescence of an Oxazine Dye

The addition of ammonium hydroxide to a weakly acidic oxazine perchlorate dye produces a color change by means of a deprotonation mechanism in which the hydroxyl radical abstracts a loosely bound proton, leaving the positively charged ammonium cation to counter balance the perchlorate anion. This reaction produces significant absorption and fluorescence band shifts which can be accounted for by a semi-classical oscillator model predicting two dichroic electronic band systems associated with this dye. Peculiar wavelength excitation dependent fluorescence band shifts are attributed to overlapping triplet states simultaneously excited.     

Capture and Dissociative Capture of a Single Electron in the Process of Interaction of Doubly Charged Ions with CO Molecules

Technical Physics - The absolute cross sections of single-electron capture and single-electron capture with dissociation in the interaction between incident He2+, C2+, N2+, and O2+ ions with...     

Generation of Superpositions of Two-Mode Coherent States for the Motion of Two Trapped Ions

We propose a method for the generation of superpositions of two-mode coherent states for the center-of-mass and relative vibrational modes of two trapped ions. In the scheme the ions are driven by a single travelling-wave laser field tuned to the carrier. Then a measurement of the internal states collapses the vibrational modes to the entangled coherent state.     

Generation of Superpositions of Two-Mode Coherent States for the Motion of Two Trapped Ions

We propose a method for the generation of superpositions of two-mode coherent states for the center-of-mass and relative vibrational modes of two trapped ions. In the scheme the ions are driven by a single travelling-wave laser field tuned to the carrier. Then a measurement of the internal states collapses the vibrational modes to the entangled coherent state.     

Time-Resolved Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Er<Superscript>3+</Superscript> Ions in the SrF<Subscript>2</Subscript> Crystal

The photoluminescence and photoexcitation spectra as well as the luminescence decay kinetics of Er³⁺ ions in the visible ultraviolet and vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) regions have been studied by the method of low-temperature, time-resolved VUV-spectroscopy on excitation by synchrotron radiation. In the VUV spectral region of the luminescence of SrF₂:1% Er³⁺, the 146.5-nm band with a time of decay of less than 0.6 nsec was revealed together with the well-known emission band at 164.3 nm (decay constant in the microsecond range). Its possible nature is discussed. The specific features of the formation of photoexcitation spectra of the f-f and f-d transitions in the Er³⁺ ion are considered. Competition between the processes of excitation of f-f and d-f luminescence has been revealed. It manifests itself in the inverse relationship of their photoexcitation spectra in a range of energies of incident photons that are close to the position of the 4fⁿ⁻¹5d configuration levels. __________ Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 519–523, July–August, 2005.     

Measurement of the Temperature Using the Tomographic Representation of Thermal States for Quadratic Hamiltonians

The Wigner and tomographic representations of thermal Gibbs states for one- and two-mode quantum systems described by a quadratic Hamiltonian are obtained. This is done by using the covariance matrix of the mentioned states. The area of the Wigner function and the width of the tomogram of quantum systems are proposed to define a temperature scale for this type of states. This proposal is then confirmed for the general one-dimensional case and for a system of two coupled harmonic oscillators. The use of these properties as measures for the temperature of quantum systems is mentioned.     

Bell态原子与双模纠缠相干光场相互作用系统的原子布居数演化

运用全量子理论并结合数值计算方法,研究了处于Bell态的两个全同二能级纠缠原子与双模纠缠相干光场相互作用系统的原子布居数演化特性.讨论了双原子体系的初态、光场的平均光子数、双模纠缠相干光场的纠缠程度以及双原子体系的原子间耦合强度对原子布居时间演化的影响.结果表明:双原子体系的初态为|β11〉时,原子布居数不随时间变化;初态为|β00〉、|β01〉和|β10〉时,当初始平均光子数增大到一定数值时演化特性呈现出周期性的崩塌和回复效应,随初始光子数的增加时间演化曲线的振荡频率增大振幅减小,且初态为|β00〉或|β10〉时原子布居的回复周期是初态为时|β01〉的两倍;双模纠缠相干光场的纠缠程度以及原子间偶极相互作用的强弱对Rabi振荡频率没有影响但对振幅有着显著的影响.     

双模纠缠相干光与Bell态原子系统的光子统计

运用全量子理论并结合数值计算方法,研究了处于Bell态的两个全同二能级纠缠原子与双模纠缠相干光场相互作用系统的光子统计性质.分析了双原子体系的初态、光场的平均光子数、双模纠缠相干光场的纠缠程度以及双原子体系的原子间耦合强度对双模光场的光子统计性质的影响.结果表明：双原子体系的初态为｜β00〉、｜β10〉时,光场在其演化过程中不出现光子的反聚束效应;而当原子初态为｜β01〉或｜β11〉时,在一定的条件下可出现光子的反聚束效应.并且在光场的演化过程中,光子的反聚束效应出现的次数、时间和深度极其敏感地依赖于初始光场的平均光子数,而受到双模纠缠光场的纠缠程度以及双原子间偶极作用强度的影响很微弱.     

Analysis of the tetraquark and hexaquark molecular states with the QCD sum rules

In this article, we construct the color-singlet-color-singlet type currents and the color-singlet-colorsinglet-color-singlet type currents to study the scalar D*■*, D*D* tetraquark molecular states and the vector D*D*■*, D*D*D* hexaquark molecular states with the QCD sum rules in details. In calculations, we choose the pertinent energy scales of the QCD spectral densities with the energy scale formula ■for the tetraquark and hexaquark molecular states respectively in a consistent way. We obtain stable QCD sum rules for the scalar D*■*, D*D*tetraquark molecular states and the vector D*D*■* hexaquark molecular state, but cannot obtain stable QCD sum rules for the vector D*D*D* hexaquark molecular state. The connected(nonfactorizable)Feynman diagrams at the tree level(or the lowest order) and their induced diagrams via substituting the quark lines make positive contributions for the scalar D*D* tetraquark molecular state, but make negative or destructive contributions for the vector D*D*D* hexaquark molecular state. It is of no use or meaningless to distinguish the factorizable and nonfactorizable properties of the Feynman diagrams in the color space in the operator product expansion so as to interpret them in terms of the hadronic observables, we can only obtain information about the short-distance and long-distance contributions.     

The Calculations of the Concentrations,of the Radial Distributions,and of the Radial Particle Currents of Excited and of Doubly Charged Ions in Low Pressure Discharges

A system of differential equations describing the radial profiles of the number densities and of the radial drift velocities of the ions and of the electrons in positive columns at low pressure containing several species of ions is derived. Excited ions and doubly charged ions, generated in two-step processes by electron impacts, the inertia of the ions and space charge effects are taken into account. For the excited ions de-excitation processes by electron collisions and by spontaneous emission are regarded. A set of nonlinear equations to determine the population densities and the initial values of the differential equations and corresponding boundary conditions are put up. Numerical solutions are given for discharges in argon under free-fall conditions similiar to argon ion lasers. One notices that without stepwise processes via excited ion levels the concentration of double charged ions remains small. In some cases the radial drift of the ions considerably reduces the population of the metastable ion levels. The radial density profiles of the double charged ions and of long-living excited ions considerably deviate from the squared radial profile of the electron density. In addition, for low degrees of ionization the theory of the free-fall column given by Tonks and Langmuir is extended to plasmas containing two species of ions.