Shelved electron

In this section I hope to show how the sensitivity of laser spectroscopy is exploited to obtain data on very low concentrations of atoms. In particular I will start off by considering a few laser atomic beam studies aimed at measuring optical isotope shifts and show how short-lived nuclei can be studied in this way. I shall also mention how it is possible to beat the natural linewidth and obtain supernatural spectra . The discussion of laser studies at low atomic concentrations then leads me onto consider experiments on laser cooling and trapping of atoms and ions. In this context I will also mention some experiments using the shelved electron idea to detect very weak transitions. Finally, I will say something about Rydberg atoms and the effects of atoms near metallic surfaces. 

The phrase shelved-electron appears to have been coined by Dehmelt in a suggestion to make observable very weak transitions. The idea is as follows. Consider a 3 level atom or ion with states 0>, 1> and 2> where 0> represents the ground state. The transition 0> " 1> is strongly driven by a laser field and emits a stream of photons with an appropriate decay constant r. This represents the allowed transition the transition 0> 2> is on the other hand forbidden and is therefore only weakly driven. If, however, the atom or ion makes the transition to state 2> the stream of photons from 1> to 0> will be switched off until the atom is returned to its ground state. A simple theoretical analysis of this process has been given by Cook and KimbleC55] who used a rate equation approach. They deduce that the probability density for the off-periods is... 

Research done in an academic setting generally results in a formal publication that appears in the primary literature. The research results contained in dissertations may or may not be published separately. Dissertations are catalogued and placed on the shelves of the student s university. Many universities now have electronic catalogues that allow searching from remote sites. Dissertations are also indexed by commercial organizations (see below). 

Fig. 2. Excitation spectrum of the 1/S o —> 3 Po resonance of a single indium ion obtained in optical-optical double resonance using electron shelving. The linewidth of the fitted lorentzian is 170 Hz FWHM. The average excitation probability in the peak is about 10% and the total measuring time was 30 minutes...

To promote the sublimation rate while avoiding such deleterious circumstances, the use of a water bath of appropriate temperature is recommended. In the case of chamber drying, specimens are usually heated from the bottom by placing the vessels on shelves that are equipped with electronic heating systems. 

It is not sufficient merely to have such material on the libraiy shelves it must also be carefully indexed. All new books and pamphlets received are examined carefully for information that would not ordinarily be expected in such publications. In The Chemistry of the Non-Benzenoid Hydrocarbons (1922) by B. T. Brooks, for example, there are references to naphthenic acids, production of fatty acids by wax oxidation, and synthetic lubricating oils. In Volume VI of Colloid Chemistry (1946) edited by Jerome Alexander, there are chapters on the Geiger-Miiller x-ray spectrometer, electron microscopy, catalysis and its industrial applications, soil stabilization, polythene, and potential nuclear energy. Such information is typed on 3 X 5 cards on some books as many as forty or fifty cards may be required. In this way an extremely useful file of information has been built up that might otherwise be overlooked as valuable data sometimes appear in unexpected places. 

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Solvent effect can have a profound effect on chemical reactions, yet we do not at the moment have a proven methodology (as in the case of electronic structure theory) that by well-known routes can converge to chemical accuracy. Continuum methods are going to carry the bulk of the workload in the foreseeable future. However, it will be one of the major challenges within the next decade to develop solvation theories that by standard procedures will converge to chemical accuracy. Such methods are likely to combine explicit solvation for the first few solvation shelves with bulk descriptions (continuum or mean-field) for the remaining part of the solvent. 

A different version is the mass display tachistoscope which was designed by the author. This instrument consists of a viewing chamber 2 feet, by 2 feet, by 3 feet. The chamber contains variable shelving to permit the display of packages or containers of different sizes together with their labels, either individually or as massed displays of two or more containers. The interior perimeter of the display chamber is lined with miniature spot lamps to provide illumination levels variable between 20 and 300 watts. The face of the container is a one way mirror. When no illumination is on in the chamber the interior display is not visible to a respondent. The electronic control console controls the level of illumination in the chamber, the duration of exposure (from. 01 seconds to continuous), and repetition sequence, e.g., a one second exix)sure at given illumination can be repeated x times every y seconds. 

In biochemistry, there are many compounds where the hydrogen atom seems unable to decide whether to share in stable partnership or to abandon the electron and strike out on its own as a hydrogen ion (H+). This depends not only on the whim of the hydrogen atom but also on the greed of its parmer atom for the electron. Chlorine, as we have seen, is eager to acquire sole use of the electron from sodium and the same is true if we combine H and Cl. Most of the time HCl molecules split up into ions, H+ and Cl, and because of this tendency to shed H+ very readily, HCl is said to be very acidic. Acids are compounds that readily lose a proton, H+. HCl, then, is called hydrochloric acid, found on the shelves of chemistry laboratories, but also found in your stomach to give it its digestive acidity. 

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