Rydberg-Rydberg collisions: resonant enhancement of state mixing and penning ionization

In rubidium Rydberg states, the collision nD_(5/2)+nD_(5/2)-->(n-2)F_(7/2)+(n+2)P_(3/2) is nearly resonant in the vicinity of n=43. As a result, over a short range of n centered around n approximately 43 the Rydberg-Rydberg interaction potential is quite large and turns from repulsive to attractive [Phys. Rev. A 75, 032712 (2007)10.1103/PhysRevA.75.032712]. We use state-selective field ionization to investigate the effect of this resonance on instantaneous excitation of mixed two-particle states, state-mixing collisions, and Penning ionization. We find that these processes depend on the magnitude and sign of the two-particle interaction potential, and thus on n near the resonance. The large magnitude of the observed state mixing provides evidence for many-body effects.     

Group Actions, Double Cosets, and Homomorphisms: Unifying Concepts for the Constructive Theory of Discrete Structures

In the present paper we describe the use of group actions, double cosets and homomorphisms in the constructive theory of discrete structures, as we found it useful from both a theoretical and a practical point of view. By means of examples we should like to demonstrate that these methods are useful both as unifying principles and as efficient methods for applications.     

The Resolvent Problem and $${{H^{\infty}}}$$ -calculus of the Stokes Operator in Unbounded Cylinders with Several Exits to Infinity

It is proved that the Stokes operator in L^q -space on an infinite cylindrical domain of , , with several exits to infinity generates a bounded and exponentially decaying analytic semigroup and admits a bounded -calculus. For the resolvent estimates, the Stokes resolvent system with a prescribed divergence in an infinite straight cylinder with bounded cross-section is studied in L ^q where and is an arbitrary Muckenhoupt weight. The proofs use cut-off techniques and the theory of Schauder decomposition of UMD spaces based on -boundedness of operator families and on square function estimates involving Muckenhoupt weights.     

On -cobordisms of spherical space forms

Given a manifold of dimension at least 4 whose universal covering is homeomorphic to a sphere, the main result states that a compact manifold is isomorphic to a cylinder if and only if is homotopy equivalent to this cylinder and the boundary is isomorphic to two copies of ; this holds in the smooth, PL and topological categories. The result yields a classification of smooth, finite group actions on homotopy spheres (in dimensions ) with exactly two singular points.

     

Averaging distances in real quasihypermetric Banach spaces of finite dimension

The average distance theorem of Gross implies that for each realN-dimensional Banach space (N≥2) there is a unique positive real numberr(E) with the following property: For each positive integern and for all (not necessarily distinct)x ₁,x ₂, …,x _n inE with ‖x ₁‖=‖x ₂‖=…=‖x _n‖=1, there exists anx inE with ‖x‖=1 such that The main result of this paper shows, thatr(E)≤2−1/N for each realN-dimensional Banach spaceE (N≥2) with the so-called quasihypermetric property (which is equivalent toE isL ¹-embeddable). Moreover, equality holds if and only ifE is isometrically isomorphic to ℝ ^N equipped with the usual 1-norm.     

On directed diffusion with measurable background

We show that the ‘directed diffusion equation’ with periodic boundary conditions has a unique weak solution u whenever b is measurable and bounded above and below by positive constants. Also, lim_t→∞u(t,x) in L^p, 1?p≤∞.