A new protocol for measuring the branching fraction of hydrogenic atoms with only statistically limited uncertainty is proposed and demonstrated for the decay of the P3/2 level of the barium ion, with precision below 0.5%. Heavy hydrogenic atoms like the barium ion are test beds for fundamental physics such as atomic parity violation and they also hold the key to understanding nucleo-synthesis ...

S. Y. Savrasov,1 V. Oudovenko,2,5 K. Haule,3,5 D. Villani,4,5 and G. Kotliar5 1Department of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey 07102, USA 2Laboratory for Theoretical Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russia 3Jožef Stefan Institute, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia 4JP Morgan Chase Bank, 270 Park Avenue, New York, New York 10017, USA 5Departmen...

The two-channel Anderson impurity model serves as a prototype for describing heavy-fermion materials with a possible mixed-valent regime with both quadrupolar and magnetic character. We report on the low-energy physics of the model, using a conformal field theory approach with exact Bethe Ansatz results as input.

Desulfurization of fossil fuels demands a high technology as the crude oil is very complex mixture of molecules with a largest hydrocarbons form in composition. Hydrogenic method for desulfurization, takes higher cost and energy and also sulfur is not separated completely from heterocyclic poly-aromatic compounds. Researchers are focused on the use of microbial desulfurization [Biodesulfurizati...

This experiment is an exercise in optical spectroscopy in a study of the spectra of “hydrogenic” atoms, i.e. atoms with one “optical” electron outside a closed shell of other electrons. Measurements include finding: the Balmer lines of atomic hydrogen and the fine structure of sodium lines; determination of the mass of the deuteron from the isotope shift. A high-resolution scanning monochromato...

The quantum mechanical nature of an electron bound to a nucleus is well-shown by the discrete emission lines observed in spectroscopy of hydrogenic atoms. We determine the calibration of the spectroscopic apparatus used by measuring the emission lines of mercury. We then determine the value of the hydrogen Rydberg constant by measuring the Balmer emission lines of hydrogen along with the ratio ...

The hydrogen atom in weak external fields is a very accurate model for the multiphoton excitation of ultrastable high angular momentum Rydberg states, a process which classical mechanics describes with astonishing precision. In this paper we show that the simplest treatment of the intramanifold dynamics of a hydrogenic electron in external fields is based on the elliptic states of the hydrogen ...