Frequency dependence periodic potentials

Under potentiostatic conditions, the photocurrent dynamics is not only determined by faradaic elements, but also by double layer relaxation. A simplified equivalent circuit for the liquid-liquid junction under illumination at a constant DC potential is shown in Fig. 18. The difference between this case and the one shown in Fig. 7 arises from the type of perturbation introduced to the interface. For impedance measurements, a modulated potential is superimposed on the DC polarization, which induces periodic responses in connection with the ET reaction as well as transfer of the supporting electrolyte. In principle, periodic light intensity perturbations at constant potential do not affect the transfer behavior of the supporting electrolyte, therefore this element does not contribute to the frequency-dependent photocurrent. As further clarified later, the photoinduced ET... 

These authors also reported theoretical calculations of this frequency-dependent rotational relaxation. The theory of Auer et al. [98] using the quadratic electric field map, originally developed for HOD/D2O, was extended to the H0D/H20 system [52]. As before [38], the orientation TCF was calculated for those molecules within specified narrow-frequency windows (those selected in the experiment) at t = 0. TCFs for selected frequency windows, up to 500 fs, are shown in Fig. 8. One sees that in all cases there is a very rapid decay, in well under 50 fs, followed by a pronounced oscillation. The period of this oscillation appears to be between about 50 and 80 fs, which corresponds most likely to underdamped librational motion [154]. Indeed, the period is clearly longer on the blue side, consistent with the idea of a weaker H bond and hence weaker restraining potential. At 100 fs the values of the TCFs show the same trend as in experiment, although the theoretical TCF loses... 

This periodic motion is called the coherent tunneling of the system. It simply reflects the fact that the eigenstates of the system are given by Eq. (21.1). The size of the turmel frequency depends strongly on the hindering potential. 

We consider first the results on p-GaP. The impedance data for p-GaP has been a fruitful source of controversy, though not of comprehension. If a sample of p-GaP is held at a negative potential for a considerable period and then slowly ramped towards positive potentials, the a.c. impedance data cannot be analysed within the framework of the two-component model. Attempts to do so lead to Mott-Schottky plots whose slopes and intercepts are both frequency-dependent as shown in Fig. 25. If the data are analysed according to the more complex five-component equivalent circuit shown above, then a much better fit is obtained for the potential region more than about 0.6 V negative of the predicted flat-band potential. In this region, the Mott-Schottky plot is linear with a slope that corresponds reasonably well... 

As we have already seen in the previous section, finding adiabatic barriers and wells of the n-th quantal vibrational adiabatic potential surface for the y dependent Hamiltonian h(y) is equivalent semiclassica-lly to finding periodic orbits of h(y) with quantised action - (n+l/2)h if the periodic orbit is over a simple well potential. The time dependent coordinates and momenta of the (y dependent) periodic orbit are denoted r (t y), R (t y), Pr(t y), and PR(t y), and the period of the orbit is T (y). We thus find for each value of y a vibrationally adiabatic barrier or well at energy E (y), a stability frequency o)n(y) and effective mass M (uq) (cf. Eq. 27) for motion perpendicular to the... 

Useful information about the adsorption kinetics, mobility of the adsorbed polynucleotide segments, and mechanism of electrode processes can be obtained by measurement of the frequency dependence of the impedance of the electrode double layer (EIS) [31, 88, 207-209]. If the adsorption/desorption process is slow with respect to the period of the a.c. potential used for the impedance measurement, the measured capacitance values decrease with increasing frequency (dispersion of the capacity). The frequency effect is most remarkable around the potentials of adsorption/desorption peaks. With more flexible ss polynucleotides, the frequency effect is larger than with the more rigid ds ones [210]. 

Figure 2.1.10. Frequency dependence of the hopping conductivity for different potential energy profiles (a) Periodic constant activation energy, (b) a single bi-well, and (c) a potential profile with multiple activation energies.

In order to derive a quantum mechanical expression for the frequency-dependent polarizability we can make use of time-dependent response theory as described in Section 3.11. We need therefore to evaluate the time-dependent expectation value of the electric dipole operator (4 o(i (f)) Pa o( (t))) in the presence of a time-dependent electric field, Eq. (7.11). Employing the length gauge, Eqs. (2.122) - (2.124), which implies that the time-dependent electric field enters the Hamiltonian via the scalar potential in Eq. (2.105), the perturbation Hamilton operator for the periodic and spatially uniform electric field of the electromagnetic wave is given as... 

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The energy position Cp of peak p in the lED of an ion with mass m is seen to be dependent on the plasma potential Vpi, the RE period T, and the ion plasma frequency cd, = yje n j m(o). Equation (48) can be used to determine the (net) charge carrier density in the sheath and the time-averaged potential Vpi from measured lEDs. The mean position Xp follows from combining Eq. (47) and Eq. (48) ... 

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Note that the product /A yields the scan rate of the square-wave potential modulation. If the delay period is sufficiently long, the additional adsorption during the potential scan is negligible. Otherwise, the additional adsorption complicates the theoretically expected dependencies, in particular the relationships between the net peak currents and potentials on the frequency [114]. 

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