The enhancement factors of the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the ground states of two paramagnetic atoms; rubidium (Rb) and caesium (Cs) which are sensitive to the electron EDM are computed using the relativistic coupled-cluster theory and our results are compared with the available calculations and measurements. The possibility of improving the limit for the electron EDM using the results of...

We investigate the effect of cantori on momentum diffusion in a quantum system. Ultracold caesium atoms are subjected to a specifically designed periodically pulsed standing wave. A cantorus separates two chaotic regions of the classical phase space. Diffusion through the cantorus is classically predicted. Quantum diffusion is only significant when the classical phase-space area escaping throug...

For example, the Chernobyl accident caused the deposition of radioisotopes over wide areas of the Northern Hemisphere, in particular in Europe ( Atlas of Caesium Deposition on Europe after the Chernobyl Accident, 1998), followed by protracted chronic exposure of some millions of people to external and internal radiation. You can see the map of radioactive contamination of Europe after the Chern...

The anion of the title complex, Cs(2)[PuCl(4)O(2)], adopts a pseudo-octa-hedral geometry (2/m crystallographic site symmetry) with two plutonyl oxide ligands in axial sites and four chloride ligands occupying the equatorial plane. Charge balance is maintained by two caesium cations per tetra-chlorido-dioxido-plutonate(VI) anion. Principal bond lengths include Pu-O = 1.752 (3) Å and Pu-Cl = 2.66...

We reconsider the problem of the solid-liquid-vapor contact-line on a disordered substrate, in the collective pinning regime. We perform a replica variational calculation which confirms the scaling behavior obtained from Larkin-Imry-Ma-like arguments and provides a quantitative prediction for the correlation function of the line. This prediction is in good agreement with experimental findings f...

Pressing solid barbituric acid with KBr to prepare samples for IR spectroscopy leads to the formation of an ionic co-crystal, in which the co-former is a classical ionic salt; co-crystal formation is also obtained with the other alkali bromides (LiBr, NaBr, RbBr and CsBr) and with caesium iodide. The simultaneous presence of alkali and halide ions affects the dissolution properties of barbituri...

This paper discusses the possibility that there is an enhancement of volume production due to gettering of atomic hydrogen by the caesium deposited on the walls, which reduces the negative ion destruction by associative and non-associative detachment. Such an enhancement would take place for all plasma grid bias voltages. Furthermore at plasma grid bias voltages higher than the plasma potential...

The asymmetric unit of the polymeric title salt, [Cs(C(6)H(4)NO(3))](n), comprises a Cs(+) cation and a 6-oxidopyridinium-2-carboxyl-ate anion. The Cs(+) cation is six-coordinated by O atoms derived from two oxido and four carboxyl-ate O atoms; each O atom in the anion bridges two Cs(+) cations. In the crystal, inter-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bonding is present and contributes to the stability o...

In the structure of the title polymeric complex, [Cs(C9H7O2)(C9H8O2)] n , a caesium salt of trans-cinnamic acid, the Cs(+) ions of the two individual irregular CsO8 coordination polyhedra lie on twofold rotation axes and are linked by four bridging carboxyl O-atom donors from two cinnamate ligand species. These two ligand components are inter-linked through a delocalized H atom within a short O...

Properties of many layered materials, including copper- and iron-based superconductors, topological insulators, graphite and epitaxial graphene, can be manipulated by the inclusion of different atomic and molecular species between the layers via a process known as intercalation. For example, intercalation in graphite can lead to superconductivity and is crucial in the working cycle of modern ba...