Electric dipoles

An electric dipole consists of a pair of opposite charges separated by a distance d. The electric field produced by an electric dipole along a line including d may be written as 

If d C r, the bracket term can be expanded to give 1 — (1 -Cdjr y so that the field becomes 

The potential energy of a dipole in an electric field is given by U = —p E. Therefore, an attractive potential exists between two electric dipoles that are aligned nose to tail that goes as and the force between them goes as —pipijr. Thus a dipole-dipole bond is 

The electric field from one dipole can induce a dipole moment in an adjacent atom that does not have a permanent dipole moment according to 

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The solutions can be labelled by their values of F and m.p. We say that F and m.p are good quantum. num.bers. With tiiis labelling, it is easier to keep track of the solutions and we can use the good quantum numbers to express selection rules for molecular interactions and transitions. In field-free space only states having the same values of F and m.p can interact, and an electric dipole transition between states with F = F and F" will take place if and only if... 

The vanishing integral rule is not only usefi.il in detemiining the nonvanishing elements of the Hamiltonian matrix H. Another important application is the derivation o selection rules for transitions between molecular states. For example, the hrtensity of an electric dipole transition from a state with wavefimction "f o a... 

Miller T M and Bederson B 1988 Electric dipole polarizability measurements Adv. At. Mol. Phys. 25 37... 

Bonin K D and Kresin V V 1997 Electric-dipole Polarizabilities of Atoms, Molecules and Clusters (Singapore World Scientific)... 

In addition, there could be a mechanical or electromagnetic interaction of a system with an external entity which may do work on an otherwise isolated system. Such a contact with a work source can be represented by the Hamiltonian U p, q, x) where x is the coordinate (for example, the position of a piston in a box containing a gas, or the magnetic moment if an external magnetic field is present, or the electric dipole moment in the presence of an external electric field) describing the interaction between the system and the external work source. Then the force, canonically conjugate to x, which the system exerts on the outside world is... 

A related phenomenon with electric dipoles is ferroelectricity where there is long-range ordermg (nonzero values of the polarization P even at zero electric field E) below a second-order transition at a kind of critical temperature. 

Equation (A3.13.17) is a simple, usefiil fomuila relating the integrated cross section and the electric dipole transition moment as dimensionless quantities, in the electric dipole approximation [10, 100] ... 

State I ) m the electronic ground state. In principle, other possibilities may also be conceived for the preparation step, as discussed in section A3.13.1, section A3.13.2 and section A3.13.3. In order to detemiine superposition coefficients within a realistic experimental set-up using irradiation, the following questions need to be answered (1) Wliat are the eigenstates (2) What are the electric dipole transition matrix elements (3) What is the orientation of the molecule with respect to the laboratory fixed (Imearly or circularly) polarized electric field vector of the radiation The first question requires knowledge of the potential energy surface, or... 

Transition intensities are detennined by the wavefiinctions of the initial and final states as described in the last sections. In many systems there are some pairs of states for which tire transition moment integral vanishes while for other pairs it does not vanish. The temi selection rule refers to a simnnary of the conditions for non-vanishing transition moment integrals—hence observable transitions—or vanishing integrals so no observable transitions. We discuss some of these rules briefly in this section. Again, we concentrate on electric dipole transitions. 

A very weak peak at 348 mn is the 4 origin. Since the upper state here has two quanta of v, its vibrational syimnetry is A and the vibronic syimnetry is so it is forbidden by electric dipole selection rules. It is actually observed here due to a magnetic dipole transition [21]. By magnetic dipole selection rules the A2- A, electronic transition is allowed for light with its magnetic field polarized in the z direction. It is seen here as having about 1 % of the intensity of the syimnetry-forbidden electric dipole transition made allowed by... 

The electric dipole selection rule for a hannonic oscillator is Av = 1. Because real molecules are not hannonic, transitions with Av > 1 are weakly allowed, with Av = 2 being more allowed than Av = 3 and so on. There are other selection niles for quadnipole and magnetic dipole transitions, but those transitions are six to eight orders of magnitude weaker than electric dipole transitions, and we will therefore not concern ourselves with them. 

The oscillating electric dipole density, P (the polarization), that is induced by the total incident electric field,... 

As for the Imear response, the transitions occur tlnough the electric-dipole operator and are characterized by the matrix elements hr equation Bl.5.30, the energy denominators involve the energy differences... 

Figure Bl.6.10 Energy-loss spectrum of 3.5 eV electrons specularly reflected from benzene absorbed on the rheniiun(l 11) surface [H]. Excitation of C-H vibrational modes appears at 100, 140 and 372 meV. Only modes with a changing electric dipole perpendicular to the surface are allowed for excitation in specular reflection. The great intensity of the out-of-plane C-H bending mode at 100 meV confimis that the plane of the molecule is parallel to the metal surface. Transitions at 43, 68 and 176 meV are associated with Rli-C and C-C vibrations.

The conmron flash-lamp photolysis and often also laser-flash photolysis are based on photochemical processes that are initiated by the absorption of a photon, hv. The intensity of laser pulses can reach GW cm or even TW cm, where multiphoton processes become important. Figure B2.5.13 simnnarizes the different mechanisms of multiphoton excitation [75, 76, 112], The direct multiphoton absorption of mechanism (i) requires an odd number of photons to reach an excited atomic or molecular level in the case of strict electric dipole and parity selection rules [117],... 

Not only can electronic wavefiinctions tell us about the average values of all the physical properties for any particular state (i.e. above), but they also allow us to tell us how a specific perturbation (e.g. an electric field in the Stark effect, a magnetic field in the Zeeman effect and light s electromagnetic fields in spectroscopy) can alter the specific state of interest. For example, the perturbation arising from the electric field of a photon interacting with the electrons in a molecule is given within die so-called electric dipole approximation [12] by ... 

What is the electric dipole matrix elements between the... 

When the states P1 and P2 are described as linear combinations of CSFs as introduced earlier ( Fi = Zk CiKK), these matrix elements can be expressed in terms of CSF-based matrix elements < K I eri IOl >. The fact that the electric dipole operator is a one-electron operator, in combination with the SC rules, guarantees that only states for which the dominant determinants differ by at most a single spin-orbital (i.e., those which are "singly excited") can be connected via electric dipole transitions through first order (i.e., in a one-photon transition to which the < Fi Ii eri F2 > matrix elements pertain). It is for this reason that light with energy adequate to ionize or excite deep core electrons in atoms or molecules usually causes such ionization or excitation rather than double ionization or excitation of valence-level electrons the latter are two-electron events. 

The electric dipole matrix element between these two CSFs can be found, using the SC rules, to be... 

Molecular point-group symmetry can often be used to determine whether a particular transition s dipole matrix element will vanish and, as a result, the electronic transition will be "forbidden" and thus predicted to have zero intensity. If the direct product of the symmetries of the initial and final electronic states /ei and /ef do not match the symmetry of the electric dipole operator (which has the symmetry of its x, y, and z components these symmetries can be read off the right most column of the character tables given in Appendix E), the matrix element will vanish. 

To see how this result is used, consider the integral that arises in formulating the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with a molecule within the electric-dipole approximation ... 

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