Abstract Due to the coupling between the rotational angular momentum and the electronic spin, the depolarized Rayleigh light scattered from gaseous oxygen shows Stokes and anti-Stokes satellites shifted by about 60 GHz. The broadening of these fine-structure Raman lines is investigated theoretically for high and medium pressures where the linewidth is determined by two contributions, one proportional and the other inversely proportional to the pressure, p. The linewidth in the pressure broadening region is given by a relaxation frequency which is obtained from the Waldmann-Snider collision term. The p-1 contribution to the linewidth is determined by the ratio of the second moment of the fine-structure freqencies (with respect to the center of the shifted line) and another relaxation frequency. Both relaxation frequencies are sensitive to the nonspherical part of the inter-molecular potential.
AbstractThe temperature dependence of the rotational relaxation of propionitrile, CH3CH2C15N, has been investigated by means of microwave transient emission signals. From analysis of the pressure dependence of the coherence decay rates for the rotational lines (J, K-, K+) = (2, 0, 2)-(3, 0, 3), (2,1, 2)-(3, 1, 3), and (2, 2, l)-(3, 2, 2) pressure broadening parameters have been derived for mixtures with nitrogen in the 210-300 K range and for the pure gas at ambient temperatures
Temperature dependence of local structure of the CuO 2 plane has been studied by in plane polarized (E//ab) Cu K-edge extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) experiments on an under-doped single crystal of superconducting La1.87Sr0.13CuO 4-y system with T c =32 K . The temperature dependence of the Debye–Waller factors for the Cu-O and Cu-La/Sr pairs are determined. We find that the motion of Cu and O atoms in the Cu-O bond is partially correlated at higher temperatures, going over to an uncorrelated motion at lower temperatures. The results are discussed in terms of the local lattice instabilities and stripes as reported in other systems.
An intercomparison of measured pressure-broadening, pressure shifting parameters of carbon dioxide and their temperature dependence