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The CO2 laser is a near-infrared gas laser capable of very high power and with an efficiency of about 20 per cent. CO2 has three normal modes of vibration Vj, the symmetric stretch, V2, the bending vibration, and V3, the antisymmetric stretch, with symmetry species (t+, ti , and (7+, and fundamental vibration wavenumbers of 1354, 673, and 2396 cm, respectively. Figure 9.16 shows some of the vibrational levels, the numbering of which is explained in footnote 4 of Chapter 4 (page 93), which are involved in the laser action. This occurs principally in the 3q22 transition, at about 10.6 pm, but may also be induced in the 3oli transition, at about 9.6 pm. 

Actually the assumptions can be made even more general. The energy as a function of the reaction coordinate can always be decomposed into an intrinsic term, which is symmetric with respect to jc = 1 /2, and a thermodynamic contribution, which is antisymmetric. Denoting these two energy functions h2 and /zi, it can be shown that the Marcus equation can be derived from the square condition, /z2 = h. The intrinsic and thermodynamic parts do not have to be parabolas and linear functions, as in Figure 15.28 they can be any type of function. As long as the intrinsic part is the square of the thermodynamic part, the Marcus equation is recovered. The idea can be taken one step further. The /i2 function can always be expanded in a power series of even powers of hi, i.e. /z2 = C2h + C4/z. The exact values of the c-coefficients only influence the... 

The Young operator Y in (1) antisymmetrizes with respect to permutations of sites in the same column in its tableau. The monomial yi, therefore, cannot be symmetrical with respect to any two sites in the same column, i.e., it cannot contain the same power of A for any two such sites. The powers of A for the sites in a given column, therefore, must all be different. The lowest possible choice consistent with this is that they be 0, 1, 2,. .., p, for a column of length /t. Thus, y can be chosen to be independent of A for sites in the first row of the tableau, and to contain A for sites in the second row, A2 for those in the third, etc. The total order is therefore... 

The most commonly used model space in quantum chemistry is the so-called full configuration interaction (FCI) space. It is the antisymmetric and spin-adapted N-fold tensorial power, of the 2A -dimensional spin-orbital one-electron space V. The... 

The 2-RDM is automatically antisymmetric, but it may require an adjustment of the trace to correct the normalization. The functionals in Table I from cumulant theory allow us to approximate the 3- and the 4-RDMs from the 2-RDM and, hence, to iterate with the contracted power method. Because of the approximate reconstruction the contracted power method does not yield energies that are strictly above the exact energy. As in the full power method the updated 2-RDM in Eq. (116) moves toward the eigenstate whose eigenvalue has the largest magnitude. 

A. J. Coleman, Stmcture of fermion density matrices. 2. Antisymmetrized geminal powers. J. Math. Phys. 6(9), 1425-1431 (1965). 

As Eq. (2.31) shows, the Gram-Charlier temperature factor is a power-series expansion about the harmonic temperature factor, with real even terms, and imaginary odd terms. This is an expected result, as the even-order Hermite polynomials in the probability distribution of Eq. (2.30) are symmetric, and the odd-order polynomials are antisymmetric with respect to the center of the distribution. 

The expansions of C (t) and C/(t) in terms of a power series of Planck s constant show a dependence on even powers of h only, but Cr(0 is symmetric in t and Cfit) is antisymmetric. 

This way of expressing the overall modes for the pair of molecular units is only approximate, and it assumes that intramolecular coupling exceeds in-termolecular coupling. The frequency difference between the two antisymmetric modes arising in the pair of molecules jointly will depend on both the intra- and intermolecular interaction force constants. Obviously the algebraic details are a bit complicated, but the idea of intermolecular coupling subject to the symmetry restrictions based on the symmetry of the entire unit cell is a simple and powerful one. It is this symmetry-restricted intermolecular correlation of the molecular vibrational modes which causes the correlation field splittings. 

The thermal conductivity tensor may likewise be split into symmetric and antisymmetric parts, with expansions in powers of B as in eqs. (35) and (36). But Z is not necessarily a symmetric tensor at B = 0, and so the expansion of the antisymmetric part of Z in an equation like eq. (36) is not applicable. Instead,... 

In this paper we have derived expressions for the environment-induced correction to the Berry phase, for a spin coupled to an environment. On one hand, we presented a simple quantum-mechanical derivation for the case when the environment is treated as a separate quantum system. On the other hand, we analyzed the case of a spin subject to a random classical field. The quantum-mechanical derivation provides a result which is insensitive to the antisymmetric part of the random-field correlations. In other words, the results for the Lamb shift and the Berry phase are insensitive to whether the different-time values of the random-field operator commute with each other or not. This observation gives rise to the expectation that for a random classical field, with the same noise power, one should obtain the same result. For the quantities at hand, our analysis outlined above involving classical randomly fluctuating fields has confirmed this expectation. 

At low velocity gradients, expression (D.9) can be expanded in a series in powers of the antisymmetrical gradient uj13. The first term of the series has the form of (D.5). 

Some interconnections can be mentioned here. The first concerns Coleman s so-called extreme state (17) (cf. the theories superconductivity and superfluidity). If h is a set of two particle determinants and the wave function is constructed from an antisymmetric geminal power, based on gi, then the reduced density matrix can be expressed as... 

The transmitter amplifier chain consists of a linear, three-stage transistor amplifier from Amplifier Research (10 W), a class C single-stage field effect transistor (FET) amplifier (120 W) custom-built by H. Bonn GmbH, Munich, and a final tube amplifier with two tetrodes 4CX 350A that deliver more than 1.5 kW of pulse power. A special effort was made to match the input and output impedances of this tube amplifier to the characteristic impedance (50 ( ) of the cables connecting it with the probe and the driver, respectively. This impedance matching resulted in the virtually complete disappearance of antisymmetric phase transients (for a discussion of the effects of such phase transients on m.p. spectra, see Haeberlen, 1976, Appendix D). 

With the GT Calculator you can perform a variety of standard group theory calculations simply by entering the appropriate structure details for the molecular geometry. In addition, on the various worksheets of the calculator files, it is straightforward to determine more advanced group theoretical results, such as the numbers of isomers generated for a given structure by decoration, or to calculate and decompose the symmetric and antisymmetric powers of permutation representations. 

The symmetric and antisymmetric powers of group representations have been identified as important in the analysis of several physical problems subject to group theoretical algebra since the appearance of the classic paper by Tisza. ... 

The GT Calculator includes options for the calculation of the symmetric and antisymmetric powers in the range 1 to 6 for a character input as a direct sum. Since the operation of the calculator for both applications is identical, only the instructions for the determination of symmetric powers is given in this section. 

It is presumed in the calculations for symmetric and antisymmetric powers that sufficient cell areas are available to display the results of most calculations of this kind without the need for alternative displays. Difficulties with resolution can be remedied using the Zoom command, accessible via the Setup subsidiary command bar. 

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