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Stratégies de contrôle pour la manipulation spatiale de molécules
2011
Talk given by E. Hertz; National audience
Fast apparent oscillations of fundamental constants
2019
Precision spectroscopy of atoms and molecules allows one to search for and to put stringent limits on the variation of fundamental constants. These experiments are typically interpreted in terms of variations of the fine structure constant $\alpha$ and the electron to proton mass ratio $\mu=m_e/m_p$. Atomic spectroscopy is usually less sensitive to other fundamental constants, unless the hyperfine structure of atomic levels is studied. However, the number of possible dimensionless constants increases when we allow for fast variations of the constants, where "fast" is determined by the time scale of the response of the studied species or experimental apparatus used. In this case, the relevan…
High resolution molecular spectroscopy of the sulfur-containing XY2 type molecules.
2010
In this thesis, we analyzed the high resolution absorption molecular spectra of H2S, D2S, HDS and SO2 registered for the first time or with better experimental characteristics as compared with those registered before. For the first time in the practice of rotation-vibrational spectroscopy in the frame of the devel- oped method of "global ftting" the analysis of 22 bands (as a whole more than 9700 rotation- vibrational lines) of D2S molecule is realized. This method of "global fitting" is developed with regard to molecules of Cs symmetry; on this basis a simultaneous analysis of all the known up to the present rotation-vibrational spectra of HDS molecule is realized. The SPGF method is appli…
STUDY OF THE INTERNAL DYNAMICS OF NON PLANAR PYRAMIDAL MOLECULES IN VIBRATIONALY VERY EXCITED STATES.
2007
From the U (p+1) formalism, we built a Hamiltonian adapted to the stretching modes of nonplanar XY3 molecules having the C3v group of geometrical invariance. This Hamiltonian is then coupled with two possible Hamiltonians describing the bending modes of these molecular system: a) based on the U (p+1) approach, a bending Hamiltonian is developed and the interaction between the bending and the stretching modes is taking into account through adapted 2:1 resonance coupling operator defined as a Us(4) x Ub(4) enveloping algebra operator ; b) based on the standard normal modes formalism, a bending modes Hamiltonian is expanded and the 2:1 interaction is taken into account as a tensorial product o…
ROVIBRATIONAL AND STARK SPECTROSCOPY OF THE X2Y4MOLECULES. APPLICATION TO ETHYLENE
2005
This thesis is devoted to the spectroscopy of ethylene in the aim of studying the molecule trapped in zeolites. The first part deals with the tensorial model adapted to the symmetry of the isolated molecule: formalism, Hamiltonian and transition moments. To take the strong electric fields existing into zeolites into account, an extension of the model to the Stark effect is proposed in the second part. The third part describes the programs of the D2hTDS software which have been built for the calculation and analysis of X2Y4-type molecule spectra. The fourth part presents applications to the calculation and analysis of zero-field and Stark ethylene spectra. In particular, the model has been t…
Habilitation Thesis
2004
This habilitation thesis presents a synthesis of my research activities during the last eight years. I have distinguished, one the one hand, researches concerning rovibrational spectroscopy in a singlet electronic state (Part III) and, on the other hand, those concerning rovibronic spectroscopy in a degenerate electronic state (Part IV).
Algebraic study of pyramidal molecules in the very excited vibrational states.
2005
In the frame of the algebraic formalism U(p+1), we developed the method to build a vibrational Hamiltonian corresponding to a set of three identical oscillators. In order to test the model, we apply it to the molecules of stibine and arsine. We introduce a supplementary intermediate group K(3) inspired by the similar formalism used in nuclear physics. This group K(3) gives additional labels for classification of the energy levels. The eigenvalues of these invariant operators distinguish the local states of the molecule. Then we study the coupling of the vibrational modes of stretching and bending for the non plane XY3 molecules. We present the construction of an algebraic operator of coupli…
Production of highly charged ions of rare species by laser-induced desorption inside an electron beam ion trap
2019
This paper reports on the development and testing of a novel, highly efficient technique for the injection of very rare species into electron beam ion traps (EBITs) for the production of highly charged ions (HCI). It relies on in-trap laser-induced desorption of atoms from a sample brought very close to the electron beam resulting in a very high capture efficiency in the EBIT. We have demonstrated a steady production of HCI of the stable isotope 165Ho from samples of only 1012 atoms (∼300 pg) in charge states up to 45+. HCI of these species can be subsequently extracted for use in other experiments or stored in the trapping volume of the EBIT for spectroscopic measurements. The high efficie…
A reservoir trap for antiprotons
2015
We have developed techniques to extract arbitrary fractions of antiprotons from an accumulated reservoir, and to inject them into a Penning-trap system for high-precision measurements. In our trap-system antiproton storage times > 1.08 years are estimated. The device is fail-safe against power-cuts of up to 10 hours. This makes our planned comparisons of the fundamental properties of protons and antiprotons independent from accelerator cycles, and will enable us to perform experiments during long accelerator shutdown periods when background magnetic noise is low. The demonstrated scheme has the potential to be applied in many other precision Penning trap experiments dealing with exotic p…
Efficient polarization of high-angular-momentum systems
2016
We propose methods of optical pumping that are applicable to open, high-angular-momentum transitions in atoms and molecules, for which conventional optical pumping would lead to significant population loss. Instead of applying circularly polarized cw light, as in conventional optical pumping, we propose to use techniques for coherent population transfer (e.g., adiabatic fast passage) to arrange the atoms so as to increase the entropy removed from the system with each spontaneous decay from the upper state. This minimizes the number of spontaneous-emission events required to produce a stretched state, thus reducing the population loss due to decay to other states. To produce a stretched stat…