A mysterious antiferroquadrupolar ordered phase of CeB6 is considered as originating from the Txyz-type magnetic octupole moment in magnetic fields. By resonant x-ray diffraction, we have verified that the Txyz-type octupole is indeed induced in the 4f orbital of Ce with a propagation vector (1/2,1/2,1/2), thereby supporting the theory. We observed an asymmetric field dependence of the intensit...

We address the question of the intrinsic quadrupole moment Q0 of the nucleon in various models. All models give a positive intrinsic quadrupole moment for the proton. This corresponds to a prolate deformation. We also calculate the intrinsic quadrupole moment of the ∆(1232). All our models lead to a negative intrinsic quadrupole moment of the ∆ corresponding to an oblate deformation. PACS numbe...

The Kerr solution is generated from the Schwarzschild solution by a simple combination of real global coordinate transformations and of invariance transformations acting on the space of stationary solutions of the Einstein–Maxwell equations. The same transformation can be used to generate a spinning field configuration from any static axisymmetric configuration. We illustrate this by generating...

The nuclear quadrupole interaction of the first excited I=1 state of Sc in the anatase and rutile modifications of bulk TiO2 was determined by time-differential perturbed-angular correlation of rays. New LaBr3 Ce scintillators with excellent energy resolution allowed us to separate the 68 and 78 keV lines of the cascade. For anatase, an almost axially symmetric electric field gradient EFG with ...

We discuss the techniques to extract the electromagnetic ∆ form factors in Lattice QCD. We evaluate these form factors using dynamical fermions with smallest pion mass of about 350 MeV. We pay particular attention to the extraction of the electric quadrupole form factor that signals a deformation of the ∆. The magnetic moment of the ∆ is extrapolated using a chiral effective field theory. Using...

Infrared spectroscopy is used to observe the orientational fine structure arising from ortho-H2 adsorbed at the primary site of the microporous framework MOF-5. The Q1(1) vibrational transition shows at least two symmetrically spaced fine structure bands on either side of the main band. These grow in relative intensity with increasing H2 concentration indicative of interacting H2 pairs. This in...

The nature of the interaction between ultracold atoms with a large orbital and spin angular momentum has attracted considerable attention. It was suggested that such interactions can lead to the realization of exotic states of highly correlated matter. Here, we report on a theoretical study of the competing anisotropic dispersion, magnetic dipole-dipole, and electric quadrupole-quadrupole force...