Search results for "atomic physics"

FTICR analysis of the magnetic trapping mode of the electron beam ion trap

1996

Abstract An electron beam ion trap is used to produce and confine highly-charged atomic ions in an energetic electron beam (electron trapping mode). After switching off the electron beam the ions remain trapped due to the external magnetic and electric fields. We have investigated the properties of this magnetic trapping mode by use of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry. We found that the number of highly charged ions and the relative species abundance is nearly the same just before and just after turning off the electron beam. The electron trapping mode thus represents an ideal method for filling the trap in situ without the losses associated with transferring the …

Trapping of laser-vaporized alkali metal atoms in rare-gas matrices

1999

Abstract Alkali metal atoms prepared by laser ablation of solid Li and Na are trapped in Ar, Kr, and Xe matrices and studied by electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy (EPR) at 15 K. Evidence for tight trapping sites, not observed for atoms generated by conventional Knudsen oven techniques, is presented. The novel tight trapping sites are characterized by a large increase in the isotropic hyperfine coupling constant and a simultaneous decrease in the isotropic g -value. Based on the EPR data, it is suggested that the observed tight trapping corresponds to single substitution of lattice atoms in Ar, Kr, and Xe matrices.

First-Principles Modelling of N-Doped Co3O4

2018

The project Nr. AP05131211 “First Principles Investigation on Catalytic Properties of N-doped Co3O4” is supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan within the framework of the grant funding for scientific and (or) scientific and technical research for 2018-2020. The authors thank T. Inerbaev and A. Popov for fruitful discussions and valuable suggestions. Yu.M. thanks M.Putnina for the technical assistance in preparation of the manuscript.

A Scanning Electron Microscope for Ultracold Atoms

2006

We propose a new technique for the detection of single atoms in ultracold quantum gases. The technique is based on scanning electron microscopy and employs the electron impact ionization of trapped atoms with a focussed electron probe. Subsequent detection of the resulting ions allows for the reconstruction of the atoms position. This technique is expected to achieve a much better spatial resolution compared to any optical detection method. In combination with the sensitivity to single atoms, it makes new in situ measurements of atomic correlations possible. The detection principle is also well suited for the addressing of individual sites in optical lattices.

Cooling and stabilization by collisions in a mixed ion–atom system

2012

In mixed systems of trapped ions and cold atoms, the ions and atoms can coexist at different temperatures. This is primarily due to their different trapping and cooling mechanisms. The key questions of how ions can cool collisionally with cold atoms and whether the combined system allows stable coexistence, need to be answered. Here we experimentally demonstrate that rubidium ions cool in contact with magneto-optically trapped rubidium atoms, contrary to the general experimental expectation of ion heating. The cooling process is explained theoretically and substantiated with numerical simulations, which include resonant charge exchange collisions. The mechanism of single collision swap cool…

2015

AbstractAtomic manipulation in the scanning tunnelling microscopy, conventionally a tool to build nanostructures one atom at a time, is here employed to enable the atomic-scale imaging of a model low-dimensional system. Specifically, we use low-temperature STM to investigate an ultra thin film (4 atomic layers) of potassium created by epitaxial growth on a graphite substrate. The STM images display an unexpected honeycomb feature, which corresponds to a real-space visualization of the Wigner-Seitz cells of the close-packed surface K atoms. Density functional simulations indicate that this behaviour arises from the elastic, tip-induced vertical manipulation of potassium atoms during imaging,…

"Table 2" of "Study of $e^+e^- \rightarrow p\bar{p}$ in the vicinity of $\psi(3770)$"

2014

The two solutions of the dressed cross section and the corresponding phase angles, PHI.

Pulsed gas injection for X-ray spectroscopy of highly charged ions stored in the magnetic trapping mode of an electron beam ion trap

1998

Abstract Highly charged atoms produced in an electron beam ion trap were stored after the electron beam was turned off by operating the trap in the magnetic trapping mode. Such storage allowed monitoring charge exchange reactions between the stored ions and residual neutral gas present in the trap by X-ray detection. The charge exchange reactions were enhanced by the application of a pulse of neutral gas. The method was exemplified for the case of H-like uranium interacting with neutral neon, where the K-shell X-rays and the series limit for the electron capture of U91+ were observed.

Ab initio simulation of yttrium oxide nanocluster formation on fcc Fe lattice

2010

Using results of density functional theory (DFT) calculations the first attempt towards the understanding of Y2O3 particles formation in oxide dispersed strengthened (ODS) ferritic–martensitic steels was performed. The present work includes modeling of single defects (O impurity atom, Fe vacancy and Y substitute atom), interaction between substituted Y atoms, Y–Fe vacancy pairs and oxygen impurity atoms in the iron matrix. The calculations have showed the repulsive interaction between the two Y substitute atoms at any separation distances that might mean that the oxygen atoms or O atoms with vacancies are required to form binding between atoms in the yttrium oxide nanoclusters.

Preparing isomerically pure beams of short-lived nuclei at JYFLTRAP

2008

A new procedure to prepare isomerically clean samples of ions with a mass resolving power of more than 100,000 has been developed at the JYFLTRAP tandem Penning trap system. The method utilises a dipolar rf-excitation of the ion motion with separated oscillatory fields in the precision trap. During a subsequent retransfer to the purification trap, the contaminants are rejected and as a consequence, the remaining bunch is isomerically cleaned. This newly-developed method is suitable for very high-resolution cleaning and is at least a factor of five faster than the methods used so far in Penning trap mass spectrometry.