Static Electricity and Magnetism

One of the benefits of an OMC is its immunity against static electricity and magnetic fields. Its capacity is 4.11 MByte in the version mentioned when used as a ROM, 2.6 MByte for the WORM version. 

Electronic Current Density in the Presence of Static Electric and Magnetic Fields. 

For a perturbing electric field in the v-direction we have V = W = Dv and W — Y = 0, while for a magnetic field in the v-direction we have for the imaginary magnetic moment operator W = —V = +MV and V + W = 0. A nonzero frequency couples the symmetric and the antisymmetric part of the perturbed density matrix, whereas in the static case the two equations in (16) are not coupled. For comments on the apparent lack of symmetry for the perturbation equations for static electric and magnetic fields see [46]. 

Of special interest to us are the properties related to the external application of uniform static electric and magnetic fields, which we will denote by F and B, respectively. To second order, the energy of a closed-shell molecular system may be written as... 

In the absence of interactions, electrons are described by the Dirac equation (1928), which rules out the quantum relativistic motion of an electron in static electric and magnetic fields E= yU and B = curl A (where U and A are the scalar and vectorial potentials, respectively) [43-45]. As the electrons involved in a solid structure are characterized by a small velocity with respect to the light celerity c (v/c 10 ) a 1/c-expansion of the Dirac equation may be achieved. More details are given in a paper published by one of us [46]. At the zeroth order, the Pauli equation (1927), in which the electronic spin contribution appears, is retrieved then conferring to this last one a relativistic origin. At first order the spin-orbit interaction arises and is described by the following Hamiltonian... 

With the purpose of elucidation the nature of the state which is created by light absorbed by a CdS crystal, Thomas and Hopfield (9) made experiments proving the influence of static electric and magnetic fields E and H on positions of a series of exciton absorption lines. 

If we turn this requirement around, it is clear that high Rydberg states themselves may be used as excellent probes to reveal the influence of external fields on quantum systems. In fact, Rydberg atoms are widely used to probe the influence of either static electric and magnetic or AC fields, or combinations of fields. Examples of how the influence of external fields can be studied will be presented in chapters 9 and 10. 

Molecular rotational levels can be split into M-components and shifted in static electric and magnetic fields. Stark and Zeeman effects have been very useful in revealing otherwise unobservable perturbations and in diagnosing the electronic symmetry of previously unknown perturbers. Long before the phenomena of perturbations and the Zeeman effect were understood, there were several studies of the effect of a magnetic field on perturbed lines (Fortrat, 1913 Bachem, 1920). 

In this chapter, we study the effects of uniform static electric and magnetic fields on the thermodynamic properties of material. The source of the fields may be in the surroundings or included in the system of interest. In either case, the properties of the material affect the value of the effective field at any point in the material. It is for this reason that the study of electric and magnetic fields is more complicated than the study of gravitational and centrifugal fields presented in the next chapter. 

While the effect of static electric and magnetic fields on the bulk of the nematic phase... 

The discussion to this point has been limited to static electric and magnetic fields. However, molecules are often exposed to time-dependent fields, as for example in the interaction with electromagnetic radiation. Some of the properties introduced in this chapter, hke the frequency-dependent polarizabihty are generalizations to time- or frequency-dependent fields of the properties introduced in Chapters 4 and 5. Other spectral properties hke the vertical excitation energies, transition dipole moments and properties derived from them, are a completely different type of property as they cannot be defined as derivatives of the groimd-state energy. 

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In the presence of two external perturbations, i.e., the homogeneous static electric and magnetic fields E and B, and of an intrinsic magnetic dipole moment pi on nucleus /, it is convenient to represent the energy of the molecule, in a singlet electronic state Ea), for a fixed position and orientation, as a power series, using standard notation ... 

ELECTRONIC CURRENT DENSITY IN THE PRESENCE OF STATIC ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS... 

Perturbation theory has been used to define molecular magnetic properties up to fourth order. The invariance of the response tensors in a gauge transformation of the vector potential has been analyzed, and its connections with the conditions for charge and current conservations have been discussed. The quantum mechanical definition of electron current density in the presence of static electric and magnetic fields has been employed to provide relationships for magnetic... 

The radiative lifetime of metastable helium ions has been investigated experimentally by Prior (1972) using a Penning ion trap. In this device a combination of static electric and magnetic fields is used to create a potential well in which ions of low kinetic energy can be stored for considerable periods of time. The apparatus used by Prior is shown schematically in Fig.7.7. The trap consists of two cylindrical electrodes connected by a web of thin copper wires and two plane circular electrodes. Electrically these form a closed cylinder, 15 cm in radius and 30 cm long, whose ends are maintained at a positive potential of between 0-5-3-0 V with respect to the body. The electrostatic field limits the motion of the ions in the axial direction while a magnetic field of between 40-65 G applied coaxially with the cylinder limits the ion motion in the transverse direction. 

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