Two-photon resonance degenerate four-wave mixing in a three-level polar molecule (model calculations)

The third-order non-linear susceptibility, ⁽³⁾(; , , –), describing the phase conjugation by degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM) is calculated for a three-level polar system under a two-photon resonance (TPR) condition. The part of the susceptibility expressed only by the transitional dipole moments and the part resulting from the permanent dipole moments are distinguished. The spectra of ⁽³⁾(; , , –), as well as the DFWM power-reflection and power-transmission spectra near to the TPR, are modelled for polar molecules. The effect of enhanced reflectivity of TPR-DFWM is obtained numerically.     

The modular group and super-KMS functionals

Every normal, faithful, self-adjoint functional on a von Neumann algebraA canonically determines a one-parameter-weakly continuous *-automorphism group (the analog of the modular group) and a canonical ₂ grading onA, commuting with . We show that the functional satisfies the weak super-KMS property with respect to and Furthermore, we prove that and are the unique pair of a-weakly continuous one-parameter *-automorphism group and a grading of the algebra, commuting with each other, with respect to which is weakly super-KMS. The above results thus provide a complete extension of the theory of Tomita and Takesaki to the nonpositive case.Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-8922002.     

Recursion method for the density of states and spectral dimension of central-force elastic percolation network

We use the recursion method to calculate the vibrational density of states () of site diluted central-force elastic percolation network on the triangular lattice. We find that () is proportional to at long wavelengths. At shorter wavelengths, i.e. in the fracton regime, () is proportional to , where is the spectral dimension of the elastic percolation network. A log-log plot of () vs gives a straight line in the fracton regime with a negative slope. From this we estimate {ie333-3} to be 0.625.     

Extensible Embeddings of Black-Hole Geometries

Removing a black hole conic singularity by means of Kruskal representation is equivalent to imposing extensibility on the Kasner–Fronsdal local isometric embedding of the corresponding black hole geometry. Allowing for globally non-trivial embeddings, living in Kaluza–Klein-like M ₅ × S ₁ (rather than in standard Minkowski M ₆ ) and parametrized by some wave number k, extensibility can be achieved for apparently forbidden frequencies in the range ₁ (k) ₂ (k). As k 0, _{1, 2} (0) _H (e.g., _H = 1/4M in the Schwarzschild case) such that the Hawking–Gibbons limit is fully recovered. The various Kruskal sheets are then viewed as slices of the Kaluza–Klein background. Euclidean k discreteness, dictated by imaginary time periodicity, is correlated with flux quantization of the underlying embedding gauge field.     

Conductivity of a superlattice during electron scattering by optical phonons

The conductivity is calculated for a semiconductor with a superlattice with simultaneous actions of constant (E) and varying (E_o cos t) electric fields, considered quasiclassically. It is shown that in calculating the current-voltage characteristics (CVC) at low temperatures (k_oT h _o, _o being the optical phonon frequency) and e_o = 0 it is necessary to consider electrons as both absorbing and nonabsorbing optical phonons. The frequently used approximation of constant relaxation time is valid only for k_oTh_o, when scattering by optical phonons dominantes.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 1, pp. 81–84, January, 1982.     

QCD sum rule analysis of the coupling constant g ωσγ

We employ QCD sum rules to calculate the coupling constant g by studying the three point -correlation function. Our result complements the analysis of this coupling constant utilizing the experimental value of the ⁰⁰ decay rate studied within the framework of chiral perturbation theory including vector meson and meson intermediate states.     

Rate equations in the hopping transport

The usual kinetic equations for the site occupation probabilities in an external field are solved exactly in a simple one-dimensional periodic model with two kinds of atoms using a) free boundary conditions and order of limitsN, 0 needed for a proper treatment of the dc conductivity here b) boundary conditions with metallic contacts and order of limitsN, 0 and c) the same boundary conditions but reversed order of limiting processes 0,N typical of e.g. numerical and percolation treatments. (N and are the number of sites and frequency.) It is demonstrated that though the bulk dc conductivity is the same in all three cases, local bulk properties of the material are strongly dependent on the régime used. The role of the order of all three limiting processes 0,N+ andn+ (N–n+) for local shifts of the chemical potential _n in the dc limit is examined (n is the number of the relevant site calculated from a boundary of the chain). It is shown especially that the rate equation treatment (régime a) on the one hand and numerical or percolation treatments (régime c) on the other hand never yield the same bulk values of _r.     

Homogeneous and hypersurface-homogeneous shear-free perfect fluids in general relativity

Shear-free, general-relativistic perfect fluids are investigated in the case where they are either homogeneous or hypersurface-homogeneous (and, in particular, spatially homogeneous). It is assumed that the energy density and the presurep of the fluid are related by a barotropic equation of statep = p(), where +p 0. Under such circumstances, it follows that either the fluid's volume expansion rate or the fluid's vorticity (i.e., rotation) must vanish. In the homogeneous case, this leads to only two possibilities: either = = 0 (the Einstein static solution), or 0, = 0 (the Gödel solution). In the hypersurface-homogeneous case, the situation is more complicated: either = 0, 0 (as exemplified,inter alia, by the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker models), or 0, = 0 (which pertains, for example, in general stationary cylindrically symmetric fluids with rigid rotation, or = = 0 (as occurs for static spherically symmetric solutions). Each possibility is further subdivided in an invariant way, and related to the studies of other authors, thereby unifying and extending these earlier works.     

Spectral superbroadening of self-focused picosecond laser pulses in D2O

Intense picosecond light pulses of a mode-locked Nd: glass laser at _L =1054 nm (fundamental wavelength) and _SH =527 nm (second harmonic wavelength) are passed through a sample of D₂O under self-focusing conditions. Spectrally structured superbroadened, spatially bell-shaped emission in the forward direction is obtained. Primary generation processes are pump-pulse-degenerate stimulated parametric four-photon interaction (₁ + _{1 3} + ₄) and stimulated Raman scattering (_{1 R} + ), which occur concurrently (₁= _L or _SH angular pump frequency, #x03C9; _R first Stokes frequency, #x03C9; signal frequency, #x03C9;₃ signal frequency, #x03C9;₄ idler frequency). The parametric four-photon interaction occurs under collinear non-phase-matched conditions and under longitudinally phase-matched, transversally non-phase-matched (erenkov-like) conditions. Subsequent interaction processes are pump-pulse-nondegenerate four-photon interaction of the type ₁ + _{R 3} + ₄, coherent antiStokes Raman scattering (CARS, ₁ + ₁ – _{4 3}), inverse Raman scattering ( _A + ₁ + ), and cascading light up-conversion of the type ₁ + _(i) – _{R (i+1)}.     

Mathematical properties of gap-functions in strongly coupled superconductors

We consider the Dyson equation associated with the BCS superconducting state from a mathematical point of view. The Dyson equation gives rise to a modified gap equation that is similar to the BCS gap equation, but with a different kernel. We first show that for strong coupling (such that the McMillan parameter ||1) both the real and imaginary parts of the solution (E) of the modified gap equation alternate in sign as function of the excitation energyE, the periods being 4₀ for positive and 4₀/3 for negative . (₀ is the frequency of an Einstein spectrum of phonons). A closed, algebraic approximation to (E) is 2||₀log[cotan(E/ )]. Finally, the poles of the kernel of the integral equation are located in the complex-E plane. For the new-type, oscillatory solution of the modified gap equation the analogue of the causal (zero-temperature) Green's function is shown to have different analytic properties from those of the smooth Eliashberg solution of BCS theory.     

Generation of more than 40 laser emission lines from the ultraviolet to the visible regions by two-color stimulated raman effect

An intense and monochromatic laser beam consisting of more than 40 vibrational and rotational lines is generated by the stimulated Raman effect, when two-color laser beams separated by 590 cm^–1 are tightly focused into pressurized hydrogen. This phenomenon is reasonably explained by four-wave mixing; one beam is used for two-step excitation (₁+₁) to an imaginary level and another beam (₂) acts as a seed beam, generating a fourth beam (2₁–₂). Through cascade processes, so many laser emissions appear with a frequency difference of (₁–₂) in entire ultraviolet and visible regions.     

Cubic nonlinear tensor of a ferromagnet

The nonlinear properties of a ferromagnet are studied. Many-time retarded Green's functions are used to obtain an expression for the cubic nonlinearity tensor with allowance for spatial dispersion of a uniaxial ferromagnet. The components due to the dipole-dipole interaction of the spins and also due to the anisotropy energy are found. A comparative analysis is made of the different components of the cubic nonlinearity tensor in both the nonresonance case and for various resonances, in particular when ₀, 3 2w₀, 2 ₀, 3 ₀ for the case in tripling of the frequency. Here, is the frequency of the incident wave and ₀ is the frequency of uniform precession. It is shown that in the non-resonance case the largest components are those that are nonvanishing when no allowance is made for spatial dispersion; in the resonance cases the largest components are those due to the dipole-dipole interaction of the ferromagnetism spins.Translated from Izvestiya VUZ. Fizika, No. 12, pp. 53–58, December, 1973.     

Harmonic mixing by weakly pinned charge density waves

Third order harmonic mixing voltageE ₀ in case of frequency matching, =₂–₁=0, and third order pseudo harmonic mixing currentj() in the detuned case, 0, are evaluated for the one-dimensional Fukuyama-Lee-Rice model for weakly pinned charge density waves in the region of sub-threshold bias electric fields. After a perturbation expansion of the phase response to the ac driving fields the impurity averaging is performed diagrammatically. Specific statistical properties of the charge density wave phase in the weak pinning limit and a non-trivial result for the pinning of the static phase are utilized to expressE ₀ andj() in terms of the dielectric function (). A recent evaluation of () within the self-consistent Born approximation is used to present the results explicitly in a number of diagrams. In comparison to the overdamped anharmonic oscillator the following differences are found: Randomness leads to interference contributions which increase the amplitudes and decrease the phase shifts. The more realistic form for () at lower frequencies lead to a downward shift in the maximum ofj() when ₁ is decreased below the cross-over frequency _c . The present theory retains inertia in the dynamical equations and remains valid for frequencies near and above the pinning frequency. It fails, however, for small frequencies _{1 c} due to the neglect of metastable states and screening.     

Enhancement of activated decay of metastable states by resonant pumping

We consider the effect of a high-frequency pumping cost on the escape rate of a classical underdamped Brownian particle out of a deep potential well. The energy dependence of the oscillation frequency(E) is assumed to be weak on the scale of thermal energy,_E(0)T(0)T/V₀ (0)[_E(0) is the derivative of(E) atE= 0,V ₀ is the barrier height,V ₀ T]. The quadratic-in- contribution to the decay rate is calculated in two different regimes: (1) for the case of resonance of the pumping frequency with the nth harmonic of the internal motion at an energye, when = n(e); (2) for a rollout region of the basic resonance near the bottom of the potential well, when ¦-(0)¦ and is the damping coefficient. In the latter case the absorption spectrum and the enhancement of the decay rate are calculated as functions of two reduced parameters, the anharmonicity of the potential,v _E (0)T/, and the resonance mismatch, [ —(0)]/. It is shown that the effect of the pumping increases with diminishing ¦v¦ and at small v is proportional tov ^–1. In this regime, the dependence on is stepwise: the pumping contribution is large for v > 0 and small for v < 0. In the frame of our theory, the decay rate is invariant against the simultaneous alternation of the signs of andv. The spectrum of the energy absorption has the standard Lorentzian shape in the absence of anharmonicity,v=0, and with increasing of ¦v¦ shifts and widens retaining its bell-shape form.     

Generating fields from data onH − ⋃H +andH − ⋃I +

There are series solutions for characteristic boundary value problems for fields on black hole backgrounds that converge when the data are given on =^{– +}, or on =^{– +}, but may not converge when the data are given on ^{– –}, or on ^{+ +}. We specialize to oscillatory data of frequency and calculate approximate reflection and transmission coefficientsR() andT(), using a field generated by data on =^{– +}, and again, using a field generated by data on ^{– –}. The first calculation gives qualitatively good results at all frequencies at each order of approximation, and quantitatively better results at higher orders of approximation; the second calculation, using the series which may not converge, gives bad results except at very high frequencies. Thus for the physically unnatural case of a field that vanishes on ^– and goes toe ^iv on ⁺ we have a series that is convergent, and uniformly so with respect to frequency, while for the natural case of a field that vanishes on ^– and goes toe ^iv on ^– we are limited to high frequencies. It is argued that a frequency-dependent renormalization of a series of the first type provides an approximation scheme that is convergent, and uniformly so with respect to frequency, for the physically important problems of the second type. The difficulties posed by the -dependent renormalization for the study of incident pulses are discussed.     

Excited-state absorption and third-order optical nonlinearities in symmetric π-electron organic molecules

Excited-State Absorption (ESA), Two-Photon Absorption (TPA) and the third-order polarizability (;,, – ) have been investigated for a model dichloride derivative of a symmetrically substituted benzylidene analine (SBAC), using a multielectron configuration-interaction procedure. The calculations indicate that SBAC exhibits ESA across the visible region of the spectrum, but that it is not as extensive as for molecules such as the phthalocyanines. The magnitude of the third-order polarizability is dominated by resonance enhancement from a very strongA _g B _u one-photon absorption. The calculated off-resonance value for (;,, – ) suggests that SBAC is a potential candidate for ultrafast switching applications.     

On the Leibniz Homology of Poisson Algebras

We study the Leibniz homology of the Poisson algebra of polynomial functions over (²ⁿ ,) where is the standard symplectic structure. We identify it with certain highest-weight vectors of some _2n ( )-modules and obtain some explicit result in low degree.     

Dynamic scaling for spin glasses near the de Almeida-Thouless line

We calculate the dynamic local susceptibility () of an Ising spin glass near the de Almeida-Thouless (AT) line within the soft spin dynamics for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model. We find a crossover from analytic behaviour of () at =0 above the AT line to a power law behaviour ()(–i) ^v on the AT line and discuss the analytic properties of the crossover function. The frequencyscale is proportional to ^1/v , where measures the distance from the AT line. We determine the spectrum of relaxation times which diverge as ^1–1/v . The average relaxation time diverges as ^–1/v wherev1/2. In addition we determine the absolute frequency scale and prove the consistency of the ansatz of Sompolinsky and Zippelius ()–(0)(–i) ^v at and below the AT line.     

The Schrödinger equation and canonical perturbation theory

LetT ₀(, )+V be the Schrödinger operator corresponding to the classical HamiltonianH ₀()+V, whereH ₀() is thed-dimensional harmonic oscillator with non-resonant frequencies =(₁, ... , _d ) and the potentialV(q ₁, ... ,q _d) is an entire function of order (d+1)^–1. We prove that the algorithm of classical, canonical perturbation theory can be applied to the Schrödinger equation in the Bargmann representation. As a consequence, each term of the Rayleigh-Schrödinger series near any eigenvalue ofT ₀(, ) admits a convergent expansion in powers of of initial point the corresponding term of the classical Birkhoff expansion. Moreover ifV is an even polynomial, the above result and the KAM theorem show that all eigenvalues _n (, ) ofT ₀+V such thatn coincides with a KAM torus are given, up to order , by a quantization formula which reduces to the Bohr-Sommerfeld one up to first order terms in .     

Green's functions for body-centred cubic lattices

The presented paper contains the tables of Green's functions for bcc lattices for outband frequencies 1·0/ _m 1·6. The central-force model is used, the interaction with 8 nearest and 6 next-nearest neighbours is considered and the number of different Green's functions is fairly decreased by symmetry. Numerical difficulties arising by computing Green's functions are discussed. The derivation of symmetry relations for a dynamical matrix is generalized for the matrix of Green's functions.