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GHz spectral line surveys of tliree regions of the W3 giant molecular cloud complex [21]. From such studies, which reveal dramatic differences in the THz spectmm of various objects, molecular astrophysicists hope to classify the evolutionary state of the cloud, just as optical spectra are used to classify stars. 

The characteristic lines observed in the absorption (and emission) spectra of nearly isolated atoms and ions due to transitions between quantum levels are extremely sharp. As a result, their wavelengths (photon energies) can be determined with great accuracy. The lines are characteristic of a particular atom or ion and can be used for identification purposes. Molecular spectra, while usually less sharp than atomic spectra, are also relatively sharp. Positions of spectral lines can be determined with sufficient accuracy to verify the electronic structure of the molecules. 

Fitz D. E., Marcus R. A. Semiclassical theory of molecular spectral line shapes in gases, J. Chem. Phys. 59, 4380-92 (1973). 

Normal vibrational spectroscopy generates information about the molecular frequency of vibration, the intensity of the spectral line and the shape of the associated band. The first of these is related to the strength of the molecular bonds and is the main concern of this section. The intensity of the band is related to the degree to which the polarisability is modulated during the vibration and the band shape provides information about molecular reorientational motion. 

Projections of molecular axes onto the surface plane form chain-like structures in which the chains with identically oriented molecules alternate (with the exception of oxygen molecules). The Davydov splitting of spectral lines represents the main spectroscopic manifestation of adsorbed structures with several orientationally inequivalent molecules in the unit cell of a two-dimensional adsorbate lattice. Many... 

The v2 bending vibration is a quartet or, in a simplified picture, two Davydov doublets as a consequence of a site-symmetry-induced doublet (see Fig. 2.6).40 A system of particular interest is CO/NaCl(100) it is characterized by inclined molecular orientations with =25° and antiferroelectric ordering of chains at low temperatures (see Fig. 2.7) which is removed on the phase transition at T 25 K. This structural information is deduced from the observed Davydov splitting of the spectral line for the CO stretching vibrations at 2155 cm 1 and T<24 K (see Fig. 

The second problem of interest is to find normal vibrational frequencies and integral intensities for spectral lines that are active in infrared absorption spectra. In this instance, we can consider the molecular orientations, to be already specified. Further, it is of no significance whether the orientational structure eRj results from energy minimization for static dipole-dipole interactions or from the competition of any other interactions (e.g. adsorption potentials). For non-polar molecules (iij = 0), the vectors eRy describe dipole moment orientations for dipole transitions. 

As seen from Chapter 2, adsorbed molecules often form monolayers with chain orientational structures in which the chains with identically oriented molecules alternate (Fig. 2.4). Consider the Davydov splitting of vibrational spectral lines in such systems. Let molecular orientations be specified by the angles 6> and spherical coordinate system with the z-axis perpendicular to the lattice plane ... 

We now turn to a more complex instance of the Davydov-split spectral lines corresponding to the bending vibrations of C02 molecules in a monolayer adsorbed on the NaCl(100) surface. A molecule C02 in gaseous phase exhibits two degenerate bending vibrations in the plane perpendicular to the long molecular axis. 

As a main point of this subsection,186 it is shown that due to sufficiently strong lateral interactions of adsorbed molecules on a two-dimensional triangular lattice, the spectral line for collective vibrations manifests some characteristic peculiar relationships between its dephasing-induced broadening and the resonance width 77 for the low-frequency mode The line width changes as Tj n(l/rf) for surface-normal and as rjm for surface-parallel molecular orientations, and takes nonzero values (independent of 77) for inclined molecules with the inclination angle ranging from 47° to 90°. 

In the framework of the low-temperature dephasing model, the dependence of spectral line shifts and widths for local vibrations on real dispersion laws for high-frequency (Qk) and low-frequency (a ) molecular modes is defined by the complex function (see Appendix 3) 184... 

To determine the characteristics of the 2x1 phase in the system CO/NaCl(100) from general formulae (4.3.47), we equate expressions (4.3.47) and (4.3.48) thus deriving four equations in four unknown parameters, y, ij and A ty with j = S, and A. It is noteworthy that for the spectral lines associated with local vibrations S and A, the vector k assumes two values k = 0 and k = kA (kA is a symmetric point at the boundary of the first Brillouin zone). The exact solution of the system of equations provides parameter values listed in Table 4.3.187 The same parameters were previously evaluated by formulae (4.3.49) without regard for lateral interactions of low-frequency molecular modes." As a consequence, the result was physically meaningless the quantities y and t] proved to be different for vibrations S and A (also see Table 4.3). 

Electromagenetic Radiation. Atomic and Molecular Energy. The Absorption and Emission of Electromagnetic Radiation. The Complexity of Spectra and the Intensity of Spectral Lines. 

Spectral line sources are used as light sources in atomic absorption instruments rather than the continuum sources used for UV-VIS molecular absorption instruments, and several atomic emission techniques require no light source at all apart from the thermal energy source. 

Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical element in the universe, and in its various atomic and molecular forms furnishes a sensitive test of all of experimental, theoretical and computational methods. Vibration-rotational spectra of dihydrogen in six isotopic variants constituting all binary combinations of H, D and T have nevertheless been recorded in Raman scattering, in either spontaneous or coherent processes, and spectra of HD have been recorded in absorption. Despite the widely variable precision of these measurements, the quality of some data for small values of vibrational quantum number is still superior to that of data from electronic spectra [106], almost necessarily measured in the ultraviolet region with its concomitant large widths of spectral lines. After collecting 420... 

On the basis of these formulae one can convert measurements of area, which equals the integral in the latter formula, under spectral lines into values of coefficients in a selected radial function for electric dipolar moment for a polar diatomic molecular species. Just such an exercise resulted in the formula for that radial function [129] of HCl in formula 82, combining in this case other data for expectation values (0,7 p(v) 0,7) from measurements of the Stark effect as mentioned above. For applications involving these vibration-rotational matrix elements in emission spectra, the Einstein coefficients for spontaneous emission conform to this relation. 

In our account here we neglect a third aspect of a spectral line, specifically its shape, beyond its characteristic frequency and strength. A natural line shape is almost impracticable to observe and would yield on analysis little or no additional information about intrinsic molecular properties. Another shape merely reflects components of molecular velocities in a direction parallel to the direction of propagation. Apart from these effects, further broadening of spectral lines due to finite durations, between collisions, of molecules in particular quantum states is attributed to interactions between colliding molecules rather than directly to... 

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