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Parity-violating asymmetry in elastic electron-nucleus scattering due to weak neutral currents
1980
Parity-violating asymmetries are calculated for elastic scattering of electrons on nuclei of arbitrary spin and isospin. Possible dependences on nuclear-model input are shown to be weak. Elastic electron scattering at intermediate energies may become an important tool in studying the structure of hadronic weak neutral currents.
Perturbative treatment of the electron-correlation contribution to the diagonal Born-Oppenheimer correction.
2007
A perturbative scheme for the treatment of electron-correlation effects on the diagonal Born-Oppenheimer correction (DBOC) is suggested. Utilizing the usual Moller-Plesset partitioning of the Hamiltonian formulas for first and second orders (termed as MP1 and MP2) are obtained by expanding the wave function in the corresponding coupled-cluster expressions for the DBOC[J. Gauss et al., J. Chem. Phys. 125, 144111 (2006)]. The obtained expressions are recast in terms of one- and two-particle density matrices in order to take advantage of existing analytic second-derivative implementations for many-body methods. Test calculations show that both MP1 and MP2 recover large fractions (on average 90…
Local correlation functional for electrons in two dimensions
2008
We derive a local approximation for the correlation energy in two-dimensional electronic systems. In the derivation we follow the scheme originally developed by Colle and Salvetti for three dimensions, and consider a Gaussian approximation for the pair density. Then, we introduce an ad-hoc modification which better accounts for both the long-range correlation, and the kinetic-energy contribution to the correlation energy. The resulting functional is local, and depends parametrically on the number of electrons in the system. We apply this functional to the homogeneous electron gas and to a set of two-dimensional quantum dots covering a wide range of electron densities and thus various amount…
Vibrational excitations in systems with correlated disorder
2007
We investigate a $d$-dimensional model ($d$ = 2,3) for sound waves in a disordered environment, in which the local fluctuations of the elastic modulus are spatially correlated with a certain correlation length. The model is solved analytically by means of a field-theoretical effective-medium theory (self-consistent Born approximation) and numerically on a square lattice. As in the uncorrelated case the theory predicts an enhancement of the density of states over Debye's $\omega^{d-1}$ law (``boson peak'') as a result of disorder. This anomay becomes reinforced for increasing correlation length $\xi$. The theory predicts that $\xi$ times the width of the Brillouin line should be a universal …
Evanescent light scattering: The validity of the dipole approximation
1998
In near-field optics the very concept of dipole is often used to represent either an elementary source or a scattering center. The most simple and widely used example is that of a small spherical particle whose polarizability is assumed to conform to the Clausius-Mossotti relation. While in conventional, far-field optics this approximation is known to be valid provided that the object is much smaller than the wavelength, its extension to near-field optics requires some precautions. Indeed, in the case of the scattering, by a spherical object, of an evanescent field generated, for instance, by total internal reflection or by a surface polariton, the strong-field gradient may increase the con…
New Results on Multiphoton Free-Free Transitions
1988
Recently some of the present authors have reported on calculations concerning free-free transitions in the presence of very strong laser fields,1 in which a number of peculiar features were clearly displayed (among others, well pronounced maxima in the total cross sections and an oscillatory structure). In particular, those calculations concerned total cross sections of direct and inverse multiphoton bremsstrahlung, for several numbers of exchanged photons as functions of the field intensity. Figs. 1 and 2 show a sample of the typical results reported in Ref. 1.
Floquet perturbative analysis for STIRAP beyond the rotating wave approximation
2009
We present a perturbative analysis of Floquet eigenstates in the context of two delayed laser processes (STIRAP) in three level systems. We show the efficiency of a systematic perturbative development which can be applied as long as no non-linear resonances occur.
On the interdependence between ground and one-phonon RPA states
1998
Working within a schematic model and in a boson formalism, we provide a descrip tion of the ground and first-excited states of a nuclear system in terms of two independent phonon operators. The description reveals itself quite effective in reproducing the energies of the states. A comparison between these two phonon operators allows us to localize a region where a correct description of these states is compatible with the Random Phase Approximation (RPA) requirement of a single phonon. This region is found to coincide approximately with that spanned by the standard RPA. Outside this region, the two phonons start differing rapidly therefore making the application of the RPA scheme impossible…
Gaussian imaging transformation for the paraxial Debye formulation of the focal region in a low-Fresnel-number optical system
2000
The Debye formulation of focused fields has been systematically used to evaluate, for example, the point-spread function of an optical imaging system. According to this approximation, the focal wave field exhibits some symmetries about the geometrical focus. However, certain discrepancies arise when the Fresnel number, as viewed from focus, is close to unity. In that case, we should use the Kirchhoff formulation to evaluate accurately the three-dimensional amplitude distribution of the field in the focal region. We make some important remarks regarding both diffraction theories. In the end we demonstrate that, in the paraxial regime, given a defocused transverse pattern in the Debye approxi…
GW quasiparticle energies of atoms in strong magnetic fields
2019
Quasiparticle energies of the atoms H–Ne have been computed in the GW approximation in the presence of strong magnetic fields with field strengths varying from 0 to 0.25 atomic units (0.25 B 0 =0.25 ℏe −1 a −2 0 ≈58 763 0.25 B0=0.25 ℏe−1a0−2≈58 763 T). The GW quasiparticle energies are compared with equation-of-motion ionization-potential (EOM-IP) coupled-cluster singles-and-doubles (CCSD) calculations of the first ionization energies. The best results are obtained with the evGW@PBE0 method, which agrees with the EOM-IP-CCSD model to within about 0.20 eV. Ionization potentials have been calculated for all atoms in the series, representing the first systematic study of ionization potentials …