Photoinduced Intramolecular Electron Transfer and Electronic Coupling Interactions in π- Expanded Imidazole Derivatives

An intramolecular excited charge transfer (CT) analysis of imidazole derivatives has been made. The determined electronic transition dipole moments has been used to estimate the electronic coupling interactions between the excited charge transfer singlet state (¹CT) and the ground state (S₀) or the locally excited state (¹LE). The properties of excited ¹CT state imidazole derivatives have been exploited by the significant contribution of the electronic coupling interactions. The excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) analysis has also been discussed.     

A Combined Experimental and DFT-TDDFT Study of the Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) of 2-(2′-Hydroxyphenyl) Imidazole Derivatives

We report a combined experimental and computational study of the effect of electron donor and acceptor groups on the excited state intramolecular proton transfer of 2-(2′-hydroxyphenyl) imidazole derivatives in solvents of different polarities. The changes in fluorescence properties, electronic transitions and energy levels are analyzed and discussed. The study was complemented using the Density Functional Theory (DFT)-Time Dependent DFT [B3LYP/6-31G(d)] computations. The calculated absorption and emission spectra of the imidazole derivatives are in good agreement with the experiments, thus allowing an assignment of the UV–vis spectra.     

Storage of Photoexcited Electron—Hole Pairs in an AlAs／GaAs Heterostructure Created by Electron Transfer in Real and κ Spaces

The storage of photoexcited electron-hole pairs is experimentally carried out and theoretically realized by transferring electrons in both real and κ spaces through resonant Γ-X in and AlAs/GaAs heterostructure,This is proven by the peculiar capacitance jump and hysteresis in the measured capacitance-voltage curves.Our structure may be used as a photonic memory cell with a long storage time and a fast retrieval of photons as well.     

Diode Laser‐Excited Optogalvanic and Absorption Measurements of Uranium in a Hollow Cathode Discharge

Optogalvanic spectra for fifty two transition lines of uranium in the wavelength ranges of 662–683, 774–792, and 834–862 nm were measured by using external‐cavity diode lasers. Among these transitions, 860.795 nm and 682.691 nm were chosen for a detailed investigation of the detection limit for uranium by wavelength modulation spectroscopy due to its stronger signal magnitudes. A detection limit of about 2 × 10^? 5 absorbance achieved at 860.795 nm is more sensitive than that obtained at 682.691 nm, but the absorption spectrum at 682.691 nm is preferable to determine the isotope ratio due to the narrower hyperfine structure as well as the larger isotope shift. A preliminary result for an isotope ratio determination in a depleted sample is presented.     

Disabling Photoinduced Electron Transfer in 4,4-Difluoro-8(-4′-hydroxyphenyl)-1,3,5,7-tetramethyl-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene by Phosphorylation

The synthesis and photophysical characterization of the phosphorylated Bodipy dye 5 are reported and compared to those of its hydroxyphenyl counterpart 1. Conversion of the latter by three methods of phosphorylation yields the strongly fluorescent dye 5 which exhibits similar steady-state spectra like 1 but an approximately five times prolonged fluorescence lifetime tau(Fl). We attribute this distinct change from tau(Fl) = 0.7 ns for 1 to tau(Fl) = 3.7 ns for 5 to the suppression of photoinduced electron transfer in 5. This photochemical reaction was previously held responsible for fluorescence quenching in 1. Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy reveals that 5 can be detected by single-molecule methods and that uncaging of phosphate in 5 is a minor problem.     

A Determination of the Relationship between Energies of Vavilov–Cherenkov Radiation and Cathodoluminescence Excited by an Electron Beam in Diamond

Optics and Spectroscopy - The ratio between energies of Vavilov–Cherenkov radiation and cathodoluminescence excited by an electron beam in diamond samples is determined taking into account...     

Ultrahigh Harmonic Generation from an Atom with Superposition of Ground State and Highly Excited States

We investigate the high-order harmonic generation from an atom prepared in a superposition of ground state and highly excited state. When the atom is irradiated by an ultrashort pulse, the cutoff position of the plateau in the harmonic spectrum is largely extended compared with the case that the atom is initially in the ground state. The physics of the extension of the high-order harmonic plateau can be interpreted by the spatial structure of the atomic initial wave packet. We can optimize the generation of high-order harmonics by substituting the excited state for a particular coherent superposition of some highly excited states to form a spatially localized excited wave packet.     

Nonclassical Spatial State of an Atom in a Quantized Trap

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“Cooling” of an Electron Bunch in the Regime of Sectioned Trapping of Electrons by the Excited Wave Fields

Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics - We propose and describe a method to decrease the spread in the energies of relativistic electrons in their ensemble (bunch). The method is based on the...     

Spectral‐Luminescence Characteristics of Polyphenyls and Polyacenes in the Gas Phase in Electron‐Beam Excitation

The spectra of electronenergy loss, excitation functions, and fluorescence spectra in excitation of the vapor of polyphenyls and polyacenes by electron beams of different energies are determined. The influence of successive complication of the molecules under study on these spectralluminescence characteristics is tracked. Unlike the optical absorption spectra, in the spectra of electronenergy loss of all the substances studied one observes a band which is related to the singlettriplet transition S ₀–T ₁. The transitions up to S ₀–S ₅ are recorded in excitation of the molecules by highenergy electrons, including the region of vacuum ultraviolet. From the functions of fluorescence excitation the authors have determined the excitation thresholds that correlate with the energies of the S ₁ levels, except for pyrene in which the S ₀–S ₁ transition is forbidden and does not show up not only in photon excitation but also in electronbeam excitation, although the intercombination forbiddenness in the latter case is removed and the S ₀–T ₁ band is observed.     

Intramolecular Hydrogen Bond in Steroid 5‐Hydroxy‐6‐Ketones and 5‐Hydroxy‐6‐Ketoximes of the Stigmastane Series

The intramolecular hydrogen bond in steroid 5hydroxy6ketones and 5hydroxy6ketoximes of the stigmastane series has been investigated by the method of IR spectroscopy. It is shown that 5hydroxy groups in cisA/Bsteroids are linked by the intramolecular hydrogen bond with polar substituents at C₃ and C₆. These hydrogen bonds are lacking in corresponding transA/Bsteroids. According to the IR spectra, intramolecular associates of polymer type are formed in 5hydroxy6hydroxyminosteroids.     

Quantum State Sharing of an Arbitrary Two-Atom State by Using a?Six-Atom Cluster State in Cavity QED

We demonstrate that a six-atom cluster state can be used to realize the deterministic quantum state sharing of an arbitrary two-atom state in cavity QED. The scheme does not involve Bell-state measurement and is insensitive to both the cavity decay and the thermal field. In our scheme, any one of the two agents is sufficient to reconstruct the original state under the condition that he/she obtains the help of the other one, but only one of them cannot.     

Faithful Teleportation of an Unknown Atomic State and a Cavity Field Entangled State Without Bell-state Measurement

The main experimental challenge of quantum state teleportation consists in the so-called Bell-state measurement, performed on the Bell operator basis for the particle （or field） whose state is to be teleported, plus its partner composing the quantum channel. More recently, based on the microwave cavity QED, schemes have been proposed for teleportation of unknown quantum state without Bell-state measurement, which restricts the probability of success to only 25% but greatly simplifies the teleportation process.     

Electron temperature and ion density measurements in a glow discharge of an Ar–N2 mixture

A DC glow discharge produced in N₂ gas can generate several species that are important in different applications, such as the modification of surface properties of materials. A low-pressure glow discharge apparatus was used for the the analysis of the Ar–N₂ mixture at a total pressure of 2.0 Torr, a power of 20 W and 40 l/min flow rate of gases. The emission bands were measured in the wavelength range of 200–1100 nm. The principal elements are N₂, N ₂⁺ and Ar I. The electron temperature was found in the range of 1.72–2.08 eV, and the ion density was in the order of 10¹⁰ cm^?3.     

New Form of Legendre Polynomials Obtained by Virtue of Excited Squeezed State and IWOP Technique in Quantum Optics

Using the technique of integration within an ordered product of operators and the intermediate coordinatemomentum representation in quantum optics, as well as the excited squeezed state we derive a new form of Legendre polynomials.     

Revisiting “Quantum State Sharing of an Arbitrary Two-Atom State by Using a Six-Atom Cluster State in Cavity QED”

In Nie et al. (Int. J. Theor. Phys. 50: 2526, 2011), authors put forward a cavity QED scheme for deterministic quantum state sharing (QSTS) of an arbitrary two-atom state. They claimed that, the quantum channel of the QSTS scheme is a six-atom cluster state. After simple calculation, one can see that the quantum channel they used is a direct product of two three-atom GHZ states. In this paper, we propose a cavity QED scheme for QSTS of an arbitrary two-atom state via a six-atom cluster state channel. In our scheme, two two-atom Bell state measurements are transformed into the discrimination of single-atom product states. Moreover, the two-atom unitary operation is changed to single-qubit unitary operations. Our scheme is insensitive to the cavity decay. The necessary time for the scheme is much shorter than the Rydberg-atom lifespan, therefore atom decays do not need to be considered.