Spectroscopy of nonspherical atomic bubbles in solid helium.
- Lebedev V Département de Physique, Université de Fribourg, Chemin du Musée 3, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland. victor.lebedev@unifr.ch
- Moroshkin P
- Weis A
- 2011-04-06
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- The journal of physical chemistry. A. - 2011
English
We analyze the effect of the host crystal symmetry on the optical spectra of the 6P(1/2)-6S(1/2) and 6P(3/2)-6S(1/2) transitions of atomic Cs in solid (4)He matrices. In particular, we address the deformation of the bubble structures formed by Cs in such quantum crystals. We show that the anisotropy of the stiffness tensor leads to static quadrupolar bubble shape deformations in hexagonally close-packed (hcp) crystals, while the corresponding deformations in the body-centered cubic (bcc) phase of the matrix have a hexadecupolar symmetry. A comparison of the measured excitation spectra with our model calculations allow us to infer quantitative values of the deformation parameters.
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- DOI 10.1021/jp200159s
- PMID 21462948
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