Among the many interesting chemical and physical properties of transition-metal ions is their curious ability to exhibit two different magnetic moments when combined with various ligand groups. The existing hybrid orbital treatment of these transition-metal complexes correlates the experimentally measured magnetic moments with the bond character between metal and ligand; that is, these complexe...

Newly available, powerful infrared laser sources enable the preparation of intense molecular beams of quantum-state prepared and aligned molecules for gas/surface reaction dynamics experiments. We present a stereodynamics study of the chemisorption of vibrationally excited methane on the (100) surface of nickel. Using linearly polarized infrared excitation of the C-H stretch modes of two methan...

The evolution of the magnetic moment and various features of the electronic structure of fcc Gd are followed to reduced volume V /Vo=0.125 using the LDA+U correlated band method. The stability of the moment is substantial; crude estimates of this signature of a possible “Mott transition” in the 4f system suggest a critical pressure Pc 500 GPa. The 4f occupation is found to increase under pressu...

By using techniques of unitarized chiral perturbation theory, where the Λ(1405) and Λ(1670) resonances are dynamically generated, we evaluate the magnetic moments of these resonances and their transition magnetic moment. The results obtained here differ appreciably from those obtained with existing quark models. The width for the Λ(1670) → Λ(1405)γ transition is also evaluated leading to a bran...

We have found that racemic mixtures of chiral single-walled nanotubes (SWNTs) wrapped with d(GT)20 DNA oligomer exhibit circular dichroism (CD). We attribute the CD signal to induced CD arising from the coupling of transition moments of the SWNTs and the DNA. Although the nanotube mixture appears to contain both enantiomers in equal amounts, DNA-SWNT transition moment interaction is more constr...

where N is the number of resistors. We find a generic phase transition at/3 =/3c = -1. Also, we develop a transfer matrix technique which determines all even positive moments. The thermodynamical formalism is applied to the Hilfer-Blumen hierarchy of generalized Sierpinski gasket fractal networks, and the crossover from fractal to lattice behavior is studied. At this crossover we find a sharp p...

The electric-quadrupole moment of the (199)Hg+ 5d9 6s2 (2)D(5/2) state is measured to be theta(D,5/2) = -2.29(8) x 10(-40) C m2. This value was determined by measuring the frequency of the (199)Hg+ 5d10 6s (2)S(1/2) --> 5d9 6s2 (2)D(5/2) optical clock transition for different applied electric-field gradients. An isolated, mechanically stable optical cavity provides a frequency reference for the...

A neutron star in binary orbit with a low-mass non-degenerate companion becomes a source of x-rays with millisecond variability when mass accretion spins it up. Centrifugally driven changes in density profile may initiate a phase transition in a growing region of the core parallel to what may take place in an isolated millisecond pulsar, but in reverse. Such a star will spend a longer time in t...

The relativistic configuration interaction valence-bond method has been used to calculate permanent and transition electric dipole moments of the KRb heteronuclear molecule as a function of internuclear separation. The permanent dipole moment of the ground-state X S potential is found to be 0.30~2! ea0 at the equilibrium internuclear separation with excess negative charge on the potassium atom....