Hyperfine structure of singly ionized lanthanum and praseodymium

Hyperfine structure spectra of singly ionized lanthanum and praseodymium have been measured by collinear fast-ion-beam laser spectroscopy. All the spectral lines were resolved and the magnetic dipole and electric quadruple coupling constants of the metastable levels and excited levels were determined. Our results are in agreement with the published data within the experimental uncertainty. For praseodymium ions, the accuracy of the magnetic dipole coupling constants are improved by one order of magnitude compared with other published data, and the electric quadruple coupling constants are reported for the first time.     

Structure of the isovector dipole resonance in neutron-rich <Superscript>60</Superscript><Emphasis Type="Italic">Ca</Emphasis> nuclei and direct decay from pygmy resonance

The structure of the isovector dipole resonance in neutron-rich calcium isotope, ⁶⁰Ca, has been investigated by implementing a careful treatment of the differences of neutron and proton radii in the continuum random phase approximation (RPA). The calculations have taken into account the current estimates of the neutron skin. The estimates of the escape widths for direct neutron decay from the pygmy-dipole resonance (PDR) were shown rather wide, implicating a strong coupling to the continuum. The width of the giant-dipole resonance (GDR) was evaluated, bringing on a detailed discussion about its microscopic structure.Received: 22 September 2003, Revised: 9 February 2004, Published online: 7 September 2004PACS: 21.10.Pc Single-particle levels and strength functions - 21.60.-n Nuclear structure models and methods - 24.30.Cz Giant resonances - 24.30.Gd Other resonances     

E1 resonances in neutron-rich nuclei within the phonon damping model

The quasiparticle representation of the phonon darnping model (PDM) is developed to include the superfluid pairing correlations microscopically. The formalism is applied to calculate the photoabsorption and the electromagnetic (EM) differential cross sections of E1 excitations in neutron-rich oxygen and calcium isotopes. The calculated photoabsorption cross sections agree reasonably well with the available data for ^16,18O and ^40,48Ca. The results of calculations show that the change of the fraction of the E1 integrated strength in the region of pygmy dipole resonance (PDR) as a function of mass number A with increasing neutron number N is in agreement with the recent experimental data, and does not follow the prediction by the simple cluster model. The EM differential cross sections obtained within PDM in this work show prominent PDR peaks below 15 MeV for ^20,22O in agreement with the recent experimental observation. It is also shown that, using low-energy RI beams at around 50–60 MeV/nucleon, one can observe clean and even enhanced PDR peaks without the admixture with the GDR in the EM differential cross sections of neutron-rich nuclei.     

Giant resonances in the doubly magic nucleus 48Ca from the (e, e'n) reaction

The 48Ca(e,e(')n) reaction has been investigated for excitation energies 11-25 MeV and momentum transfers 0.22-0.43 fm(-1) at the superconducting Darmstadt electron linear accelerator S-DALINAC. Electric dipole and quadrupole plus monopole strength distributions are extracted from a multipole decomposition of the spectra. Their fragmented structure is described by microscopic calculations allowing for coupling of the basic particle-hole excitations to more complex configurations. Comparison of the excitation spectrum of the residual nucleus 47Ca with statistical model calculations reveals a 39(5)% contribution of direct decay to the damping of the giant dipole resonance.     

Pygmy and Giant Dipole Resonances in Proton-Rich Nuclei ~(17,18)Ne

The pygmy and giant dipole resonances in proton-rich nuclei~(17,18)Ne are investigated with a fully self-consistent approach. The properties of ground states are calculated in the Skyrme Hartree-Fock with the Bardeen-CooperSchrieffer approximation to take into account the pairing correlation. The quasiparticle random phase approximation(QRPA) method is used to explore the properties of excited dipole states. In the calculations the SLy5 Skyrme interaction is employed. In addition to the giant dipole resonances, pygmy dipole resonances(PDR) are found to be located in the energy region below 10 MeV in both 17,18 Ne. The strength and transition density show that the low-lying states are typical PDR states. However, analyzing the QRPA amplitudes of proton and neutron 2 quasiparticle(2 qp) configurations for a given low-lying state in ~(17,18)Ne, we find that the PDR state is less collective, more like a single 2 qp excitation.     

Measurement of isotope shift and hyperfine splitting of190, 191, 193, 197Pb isotopes by collinear laser spectroscopy

We report here on the measurement of isotope shift and hyperfine splitting of^{190, 191, 193, 197}Pb for the 723 nm atomic optical transition. Detailed analysis of the optical data has been done by combining them with the available muonic and electronicx-ray isotope shift data. The magnetic dipole moments and the electric quadrupole moments of the odd isotopes have been extracted from the hyperfine coupling constants of the atomic states involved in the optical transition used.     

Dipolar response and hydrogen-bond kinetics in liquid water in square-wave time-varying electric fields

Non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations of liquid water have been performed at 298 K in the presence of external time-varying electric fields, approximating a square wave, of varying peak intensity (0.005–0.1 V/Å) in the microwave to far-infrared frequency range (20–500 GHz). Significant non-thermal field effects were noted in terms of dipolar response and acceleration of hydrogen-bond kinetics. The coupling between the total dipole moment and the external field has been investigated and autocorrelation functions (ACFs) of both the total dipole moment and the average of the individual molecular dipole moment along the laboratory axis of the applied fields exhibited coupling, with the former showing a stronger coupling and the latter showing coupling to lower magnitude fields. The maximum alignment achieved has been computed as a function of field intensities and frequencies: the lower frequencies show a greater maximum alignment as the system had more time within each field cycle to respond. The normalised probability distribution and the hydrogen-bond ACFs have been computed: the ACF showed a clear effect over shortening the hydrogen-bond relaxation time. The field effects over the molecules’ transitions from four to five hydrogen bonds have been computed. There was an enhancement of fewer molecules undergoing transitions and a dampening for a larger proportion of molecules, depending on the external fields’ periods.     

自旋轨道耦合引起的电偶极矩

文章介绍了由于自旋轨道耦合导致的电子的电偶极矩在自旋电子学理论中的基本意义。研究发现，该电偶极矩与自旋流张量的反对称部分直接相关，它不仅直接导致可观测的电磁学效应，而且与电子在电场受到的力以及力矩有关，从而为自旋的电子学操控提供了可能。     

Ab initio investigation of the electronic and vibrational properties for the (CaLi)+ ionic molecule

A wide adiabatic study has been performed for numerous electronic states of CaLi⁺ molecular ion. The adiabatic potential energy curves and their spectroscopic constants (R_e, D_e, ω_e and T_e) have been calculated using an ab initio approach including a nonempirical pseudo-potential for the Ca and Li cores with the core polarisation potentials operator through full configuration interaction (FCI). Thereafter, the energies of vibrational levels and their spacing for all these states have been reported. In addition, the electric dipole moment curves have been investigated for the (1-19) Σ, (1-12) Π and (1-8) Δ electric states. Moreover it lets us check the extreme transition dipole moments (TDM). These behaviours of TDM are more accustomed to estimate the radiative lifetimes for all vibrational levels in 2¹Σ⁺ and 3¹Σ⁺ states. Also, the bound-bound and the bound-free contribution have been calculated precisely and by employing a Franck–Condon (FC) approximation.     

141Pr+波长56908 nm谱线超精细结构测量

利用共线快离子束-激光高分辨光谱学测量了141Pr+波长为56908nm谱线的超精细结构光谱，由此得到超精细相互作用常数和参与跃迁激发态、亚稳态能级的超精细能级分裂-与已有的数据比较，在实验误差范围内一致，但测量精度提高了一个数量级- 关键词： 超精细结构 快离子束-激光光谱学 磁偶极矩和电四极矩超精细作用常数     

估算双层屏蔽腔体窄缝耦合的混合方法

 用混合方法计算双层屏蔽腔体窄缝耦合时,外腔体的窄缝耦合用传输线模型计算,内腔体的用磁偶极子模型计算。混合法可以求出双层屏蔽腔体内的场分布和屏蔽系数的分布规律,避免了传输线模型只能计算腔体中心线上的屏蔽系数而不能分析腔内横截面上耦合场分布规律的缺点。将得到的窄缝耦合的传输线模型和磁偶极子模型的计算结果与实测值和Micro-Stripes软件仿真值进行对比,验证了传输线和磁偶极子模型的有效性。混合方法给出了窄缝数量及腔体内不同观测点对屏蔽系数的影响,结果表明：双层屏蔽腔体的屏蔽效能明显优于单层屏蔽腔体;随着相同尺寸的窄缝数量的递增,腔体内的屏蔽系数递减;在与双层屏蔽腔体中心线垂直的横截面上,观测点屏蔽系数以中心线上点为中心,沿窄缝方向向两边递增,也就是离中心线越远,腔体内的耦合电场越弱,且混合法的速度明显快于软件计算速度,适合于高频范围的分析。     

The Enhanced Second‐Harmonic Generation Based on Magnetic‐Lorentz‐Force Effect

Electromagnetic coupling generates a second‐harmonic signal via the magnetic component of Lorentz force of free electrons. In this work, the enhancement of artificial second‐harmonic generation (SHG) from plasmonic metamaterial with near‐field electromagnetic coupling is theoretically investigated by performing numerical simulations in both frequency and time domains. Simulation results demonstrate that a small gap between the near‐field electric dipole and magnetic resonators could increase the electromagnetic coupling and the SHG signal. In addition, the longer the near‐field electric dipole resonator, the stronger the SHG signal emits. By tuning the geometrical parameters, it has been verified that near‐field electromagnetic coupling results in enhancement of magnetic resonance, thereby improving the SHG signal by more than 3.4 times. This research paves a way toward the design of artificial nonlinearity with metamaterials.     

MEASUREMENT OF HYPERFINE COUPLING CONSTANTS OF THE EXCITED STATES 4f7(8S07/2)6p3/2(7/2, 3/2) IN 151,153Eu+

Hyperfine structure spectra of singly ionized europium have been measured by collinear fast-ion-beam laser spectroscopy. All the spectral lines were resolved and the magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole coupling constants of the metastable and excited levels were determined.     

金纳米环双体尺寸和耦合效应对表面等离子体共振特性的影响

采用离散偶极子近似方法系统地研究了金纳米环双体的消光光谱及其电场分布. 计算结果表明, 金纳米环双体在耦合作用下的共振消光峰对应着不同振动模式, 改变金纳米环双体的排列方式、 间距和尺寸大小, 其表面等离子体共振消光峰发生红移或蓝移. 因此可以通过对金纳米环双体结构参数和排列方式的设定, 调节其表面等离子体共振消光峰的位置. 电场分布表明, 水平排列的金纳米环双体较单个金纳米环产生更强的局部表面增强电场. 适当的小间距, 较大的内外半径的金纳米环水平阵列更适合做表面增强拉曼散射的衬底, 在生物分子检测等领域具有潜在的应用.     

Symmetry theory of the flexomagnetoelectric interaction in the magnetic vortices and skyrmions

Symmetry classification of the magnetic vortices and skyrmions has been suggested. Relation between symmetry based predictions and direct calculation has been shown. It was shown that electric dipole moment of the vortex is located inside the small vortex core. The antivortices and antiskyrmions do not carry the total core electric dipole induced by the flexomagnetoelectric interaction in the hexoctahedral cubic crystal. The volumetric bound electric charge is distributed around the core. Switching of the core electric dipole direction produces the switching of the core magnetization or vortex chirality and vice versa. The vortices and skyrmions with time-invariant enantiomorphism have two degenerative states: clockwise and counterclockwise state.     

Orbital-angular-momentum based origin of Rashba-type surface band splitting

We propose that the existence of local orbital angular momentum (OAM) on the surfaces of high-Z materials plays a crucial role in the formation of Rashba-type surface band splitting. Local OAM state in a Bloch wave function produces an asymmetric charge distribution (electric dipole). The surface-normal electric field then aligns the electric dipole and results in chiral OAM states and the relevant Rashba-type splitting. Therefore, the band splitting originates from electric dipole interaction, not from the relativistic Zeeman splitting as proposed in the original Rashba picture. The characteristic spin chiral structure of Rashba states is formed through the spin-orbit coupling and thus is a secondary effect to the chiral OAM. Results from first-principles calculations on a single Bi layer under an external electric field verify the key predictions of the new model.     

Effect of a magnetic field on the dipole echo in glasses caused by nuclear quadrupole moments

The effect of a magnetic field on the amplitude of the dipole echo in glasses at a temperature of about 10 mK caused by the presence of nonspherical nuclei with electric quadrupole moments in the glass has been considered theoretically. It has been shown that in this case, the two-level systems (TLSs) that determine the properties of glasses at low temperatures are transformed into more complicated multilevel systems. These systems have new properties as compared to usual TLSs and, in particular, exhibit oscillations of the electric dipole echo amplitude in the magnetic field. A general formula that describes the echo amplitude in an arbitrarily split TLS has been derived in perturbation theory. Detailed analytic and numerical analysis of the formula has been performed. The theory agrees qualitatively and quantitatively well with the experimental data.     

New measurements and global analysis of rotational spectra of Cl-, Br-, and I-benzene: Spectroscopic constants and electric dipole moments

The data available from rotational spectroscopy for chlorobenzene, bromobenzene, and iodobenzene have been extended by new measurements in the mm-wave region and in supersonic expansion in the cm-wave region. All available ground state measurements have been combined in global fits to derive precise rotational, centrifugal, and nuclear quadrupole coupling constants for the molecules. Rotational transitions in first excited states of the lowest frequency normal modes in bromobenzene and iodobenzene have been assigned and fitted. The values of electric dipole moments for ³⁵Cl-, ⁷⁹Br-, ⁸¹Br-, and I-benzene have been determined from Stark effect measurements on selected hyperfine components in the supersonic expansion spectrum, and are compared with values for several other series of monohalogen molecules.     

Pygmy dipole resonance in nuclei

A brief survey of the state of the modern microscopic theory of the so-called pygmy dipole resonance in nuclei is given—in particular, some unresolved problems are listed. It is emphasized that, in order to explain the pygmy dipole resonance, it is necessary but not sufficient to take into account the coupling of single-particle degrees of freedom to photon degrees of freedom. The results of the calculations performed for the first time for the isovector pygmy dipole resonance and the isovector electric giant dipole resonance in ¹²⁴Sn within a self-consistent approach involving, in addition to the standard quasiparticle random-phase approximation, a single-particle continuum and quasiparticle-phonon coupling of single-particle degrees of freedom to phonon degrees of freedom are presented. The results are found to be in satisfactory agreement with experimental data. The calculation of the isoscalar strength function in the energy region of the pygmy dipole resonance revealed that the nuclear-structure mechanism does not provide the isoscalar-strength suppression observed at energies in excess of 7 MeV in (α, α′γ) reactions; therefore, this suppression may stem from the reaction mechanism.