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Selective excitation of metastable atomic states by femto- and attosecond laser pulses
The possibility of achieving highly selective excitation of low metastable
states of hydrogen and helium atoms by using short laser pulses with reasonable
parameters is demonstrated theoretically. Interactions of atoms with the laser
field are studied by solving the close-coupling equations without
discretization. The parameters of laser pulses are calculated using different
kinds of optimization procedures. For the excitation durations of hundreds of
femtoseconds direct optimization of the parameters of one and two laser pulses
with Gaussian envelopes is used to introduce a number of simple schemes of
selective excitation. To treat the case of shorter excitation durations,
optimal control theory is used and the calculated optimal fields are
approximated by sequences of pulses with reasonable shapes. A new way to
achieve selective excitation of metastable atomic states by using sequences of
attosecond pulses is introduced.Comment: To be published in Phys. Rev. A, 10 pages, 3 figure
Effects of Crystal Structure and the On-Site Coulomb Interactions on the Electronic and Magnetic Structure of Pyrochlores MoO (A= Y, Gd, and Nd)
Being motivated by recent experimental studies, we investigate magnetic
structures of the Mo pyrochlores MoO (= Y, Nd, and Gd) and
their impact on the electronic properties. The latter are closely related with
the behavior of twelve Mo() bands, located near the Fermi level and
well separated from the rest of the spectrum. We use a mean-field Hartree-Fock
approach, which combines fine details of the electronic structure for these
bands, extracted from the conventional calculations in the local-density
approximation, the spin-orbit interaction, and the on-site Coulomb interactions
amongst the Mo(4d) electrons, treated in the most general rotationally
invariant form. The Coulomb repulsion U plays a very important role in the
problem, and the semi-empirical value U1.5-2.5 eV accounts simultaneously
for the metal-insulator (M-I) transition, the ferromagnetic (FM) - spin-glass
(SG) transition, and for the observed enhancement of the anomalous Hall effect
(AHE). The M-I transition is mainly controlled by . The magnetic structure
at the metallic side is nearly collinear FM, due to the double exchange
mechanism. The transition into the insulating state is accompanied by the large
canting of spin and orbital magnetic moments. The sign of exchange interactions
in the insulating state is controlled by the Mo-Mo distances. Smaller distances
favor the antiferromagnetic coupling, which preludes the SG behavior in the
frustrated pyrochlore lattice. Large AHE is expected in the nearly collinear FM
state, near the point of M-I transition, and is related with the unquenched
orbital magnetization at the Mo sites. We also predict large magneto-optical
effect in the same FM compounds.Comment: 26 pages, 17 figures (low resolution is used for Figs. 6, 8, and 9,
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