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Muonium addition reactions in the gas phase: Quantum tunneling in Mu + C2H4 and Mu + C2D4
Copyright © 1990 American Institute of Physics.The reaction kinetics for the addition of the muonium (Mu=μ+e−) atom to C2H4 and C2D4 have been measured over the temperature range 150–500 K at (N2) moderator pressures near 1 atm. A factor of about 8 variation in moderator pressure was carried out for C2H4, with no significant change seen in the apparent rate constant kapp, which is therefore taken to be at the high pressure limit, yielding the bimolecular rate constant kMu for the addition step. This is also expected from the nature of the μSR technique employed, which, in favorable cases, gives kapp=kMu at any pressure. Comparisons with the H atom data of Lightfoot and Pilling, and Sugawara et al. and the D atom data of Sugawara et al. reveal large isotope effects. Only at the highest temperatures, near 500 K, is kMu/kH given by its classical value of 2.9, from the mean velocity dependence of the collision rate but at the lowest temperatures kMu/kH≳30/1 is seen, reflecting the pronounced tunneling of the much lighter Mu atom (mμ=1/9 mp). The present Mu results should provide accurate tests of reaction theories on currently available ab initio surfaces.NSERC (Canada), the Canada Council for their awarding of a Killam Research Fellowship and the Meson Science Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo
Out-of-plane nesting driven spin spiral in ultrathin Fe/Cu(001) films
Epitaxial ultrathin Fe films on fcc Cu(001) exhibit a spin spiral (SS), in
contrast to the ferromagnetism of bulk bcc Fe. We study the in-plane and
out-of-plane Fermi surfaces (FSs) of the SS in 8 monolayer Fe/Cu(001) films
using energy dependent soft x-ray momentum-resolved photoemission spectroscopy.
We show that the SS originates in nested regions confined to out-of-plane FSs,
which are drastically modified compared to in-plane FSs. From precise
reciprocal space maps in successive zones, we obtain the associated real space
compressive strain of 1.5+-0.5% along c-axis. An autocorrelation analysis
quantifies the incommensurate ordering vector q=(2pi/a)(0,0,~0.86), favoring a
SS and consistent with magneto-optic Kerr effect experiments. The results
reveal the importance of in-plane and out-of-plane FS mapping for ultrathin
films.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Experimental tests of reaction rate theory: Mu+H2 and Mu+D2
Copyright @ 1987 American Institute of Physics.Bimolecular rate constants for the thermal chemical reactions of muonium (Mu) with hydrogen and deuterium—Mu+H2→MuH+H and Mu+D2→MuD+D—over the temperature range 473–843 K are reported. The Arrhenius parameters and 1σ uncertainties for the H2 reaction are log A (cm3 molecule-1 s-1)=-9.605±0.074 and Ea =13.29±0.22 kcal mol-1, while for D2 the values are -9.67±0.12 and 14.73±0.40, respectively. These results are significantly more precise than those reported earlier by Garner et al. For the Mu reaction with H2 our results are in excellent agreement with the 3D quantum mechanical calculations of Schatz on the Liu–Siegbahn–Truhlar–Horowitz potential surface, but the data for both reactions compare less favorably with variational transition-state theory, particularly at the lower temperatures.NSERC (Canada) and the Petroleum Research Foundation of the Americal Chemical Society
Revisiting the valence-band and core-level photoemission spectra of NiO
We have re-examined the valence-band (VB) and core-level electronic structure
of NiO by means of hard and soft x-ray photoemission spectroscopy (PES). The
spectral weight of the lowest energy state found to be enhanced in the bulk
sensitive Ni 2p core-level PES. A configuration-interaction model including the
bound state screening has shown significant agreement with the core-level
spectra, and the off and on-resonance VB spectra. These results identify the
lowest energy state in core-level and VB-PES as the Zhang-Rice doublet bound
state, consistent with the spin-fermion model and recent ab initio calculation
with dynamical mean-field theory (LDA + DMFT).Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Evidence for mass renormalization in LaNiO$"" sub 3_: an in situ soft x-ray photoemission study of epitaxial films
We investigate the electronic structure of high-quality single-crystal
LaNiO (LNO) thin films using in situ photoemission spectroscopy (PES). The
in situ high-resolution soft x-ray PES measurements on epitaxial thin films
reveal the intrinsic electronic structure of LNO. We find a new sharp feature
in the PES spectra crossing the Fermi level, which is derived from the
correlated Ni 3 electrons. This feature shows significant enhancement
of spectral weight with decreasing temperature. From a detailed analysis of
resistivity data, the enhancement of spectral weight is attributed to
increasing electron correlations due to antiferromagnetic fluctuations.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures. submitted to Phys. Rev.
Multiple peak aggregations for the Keller-Segel system
In this paper we derive matched asymptotic expansions for a solution of the
Keller-Segel system in two space dimensions for which the amount of mass
aggregation is , where Previously available asymptotics
had been computed only for the case in which N=1
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