Theoretical reflections about education for sustainable development concept: cultural and territorial dimensions as social innovations

International audienceThis communication proposes a theoretical and methodological framework for a research which finds its place in the project "new-LIFE" responding to the topic "Europe moving towards a new path of economic growth and social development" of the last call for project of the 7th Research Programme of the European Union published on July 20, 2010. The project attempts to answer a crucial question: What are the cultural and educational developments which will promote the support of citizens and territories on the path to a successful socio-ecological transition? In connection with the research conducted within the ANR project "Education for Sustainable Development: Opportunities and Challenges" we propose to study the educational dimension of territorial intelligence as a tool for sustainable development, in particular to question several types of territoriality (rural, mountain, urban, etc.) and educational areas (related to school or not) to characterize the educational practices of territorial intelligence, and to assess the impact of those territorialities on education for sustainable development, as well as on the eco-citizen identity construction

Formation of ultracold SrYb molecules in an optical lattice by photoassociation spectroscopy: theoretical prospects

State-of-the-art {\em ab initio} techniques have been applied to compute the potential energy curves for the SrYb molecule in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation for the ground state and first fifteen excited singlet and triplet states within the coupled-cluster framework. The leading long-range coefficients describing the dispersion interactions at large interatomic distances are also reported. The electric transition dipole moments have been obtained as the first residue of the polarization propagator computed with the linear response coupled-cluster method restricted to single and double excitations. Spin-orbit coupling matrix elements have been evaluated using the multireference configuration interaction method restricted to single and double excitations with a large active space. The electronic structure data was employed to investigate the possibility of forming deeply bound ultracold SrYb molecules in an optical lattice in a photoassociation experiment using continuous-wave lasers. Photoassociation near the intercombination line transition of atomic strontium into the vibrational levels of the strongly spin-orbit mixed $b^3\Sigma^+$, $a^3\Pi$, $A^1\Pi$, and $C^1\Pi$ states with subsequent efficient stabilization into the $v^{\prime\prime}=1$ vibrational level of the electronic ground state is proposed. Ground state SrYb molecules can be accumulated by making use of collisional decay from $v^{\prime\prime}=1$ to $v^{\prime\prime}=0$. Alternatively, photoassociation and stabilization to $v^{\prime\prime}=0$ can proceed via stimulated Raman adiabatic passage provided that the trapping frequency of the optical lattice is large enough and phase coherence between the pulses can be maintained over at least tens of microseconds

Charge Transfer from Regularized Symmetry-Adapted Perturbation Theory

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