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Two-color resonant four-wave mixing: a tool for double resonance spectroscopy
Two-color resonant four-wave mixing (RFWM) shows great promise in a variety of double-resonance applications in molecular spectroscopy and chemical dynamics. One such application is stimulated emission pumping (SEP), which is a powerful method of characterizing ground-state potential energy surfaces in regions of chemical interest. The authors use time-independent, diagrammatic perturbation theory to identify the resonant terms in the third-order nonlinear susceptibility for each possible scheme by which two-color RFWM can be used for double-resonance spectroscopy. After a spherical tensor analysis they arrive at a signal expression for two-color RFWM that separates the molecular properties from purely laboratory-frame factors. In addition, the spectral response for tuning the DUMP laser in RFWM-SEP is found to be a simple Lorentzian in free-jet experiments. The authors demonstrate the utility of RFWM-SEP and test their theoretical predictions in experiments on jet-cooled transient molecules. In experiments on C{sub 3} they compare the two possible RFWM-SEP processes and show that one is particularly well-suited to the common situation in which the PUMP transition is strong but the DUMP transitions are weak. They obtain RFWM-SEP spectra of the formyl radical, HCO, that probe quasibound vibrational resonances lying above the low threshold for dissociation to H+CO. Varying the polarization of the input beams or PUMP rotational branch produces dramatic effects, in the relative intensities of rotational lines in the RFWM-SEP spectra of HCO; these effects are well-described by their theoretical analysis. Finally, RFWM-SEP spectra of HCO resonances that are homogeneously broadened by dissociation confirm the predicted lineshape and give widths that are in good agreement with those determined via unsaturated fluorescence depletion SEP
Dispersion of the dielectric function of a charge-transfer insulator
We study the problem of dielectric response in the strong coupling regime of
a charge transfer insulator. The frequency and wave number dependence of the
dielectric function and its inverse is the main object of consideration. We show that the
problem, in general, cannot be reduced to a calculation within the Hubbard
model, which takes into account only a restricted number of electronic states
near the Fermi energy. The contribution of the rest of the system to the
longitudinal response (i.e. to ) is essential
for the whole frequency range. With the use of the spectral representation of
the two-particle Green's function we show that the problem may be divided into
two parts: into the contributions of the weakly correlated and the Hubbard
subsystems. For the latter we propose an approach that starts from the
correlated paramagnetic ground state with strong antiferromagnetic
fluctuations. We obtain a set of coupled equations of motion for the
two-particle Green's function that may be solved by means of the projection
technique. The solution is expressed by a two particle basis that includes the
excitonic states with electron and hole separated at various distances. We
apply our method to the multiband Hubbard (Emery) model that describes layered
cuprates. We show that strongly dispersive branches exist in the excitonic
spectrum of the 'minimal' Emery model () and consider the
dependence of the spectrum on finite oxygen hopping and on-site
repulsion . The relationship of our calculations to electron energy loss
spectroscopy is discussed.Comment: 22 pages, 5 figure
Laser evaporation as a source of small free-radicals
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