Broadening and shifting of the Raman Q branch in D2 and D2–He mixtures, II: line shapes, fitting routines, and effects nonlinear in density

1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (11-12) ◽  
pp. 891-896 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Sinclair ◽  
P. Duggan ◽  
J. W. Forsman ◽  
J. R. Drummond ◽  
A. D. May

In the preceding paper we fitted the experimental profiles using a single Lorentzian line shape and assumed that the width and shift were proportional to the density. Here we discuss nonlinear contributions to widths and shifts and present a different spectral profile and analysis that allows us (i) to determine unbiased, binary collision, impact limit, broadening and shifting coefficients; (ii) to disentangle several effects nonlinear in the density; and, subsequently, (iii) to observe broadening and shifting arising purely from the correlation between perturbers and three-body interactions. This is a new avenue of research in molecular dynamics. In addition, measurements of the broadening of the depolarized part of the Q branch in D2 are reported for the first time.

Author(s):  
Kelly Chance ◽  
Randall V. Martin

Line shapes describe how absorption and emission are spectrally distributed around the line positions formed by rotational, vibrational, and electronic transitions. Line shapes arise from the different processes that spectrally broaden the absorption and emission of radiation. Optical thickness and equivalent width are shown to be fundamentally related to line shape. The fundamental line shape functions for atmospheres including the Gaussian line shape due to molecular motion and the Lorentzian line shape from lifetime broadening, including collision (pressure) broadening are described. Their convolution, the Voigt line shape, which is important in some atmospheric conditions is also described. The standard HITRAN database of spectroscopic parameters of molecules for use in calculation of radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres, from radiofrequencies to the near ultraviolet, is introduced.


Author(s):  
Andrei Letunov ◽  
Valery Lisitsa ◽  
Valery Astapenko

The effect of atomic and molecular microfied dynamics on spectral line shapes is under consideration. This problem is treated in the framework of the Frequency Fluctuation Model (FFM). For the first time the FFM is tested for the broadening of a spectral line by neutral particles. The usage of the FFM allows one to derive simple analytical expressions and perform fast calculations of the intensity profile. The obtained results was compared with Chen and Takeo theory (CT), which is in a good agreement with experimental data. It was demonstrated that for moderate values of temperature and density the FFM successfully describes the effect of the microfield dynamics on a spectral line shape.


2002 ◽  
Vol 715 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Su ◽  
Robin Plachy ◽  
P. C. Taylor ◽  
S. Stone ◽  
G. Ganguly ◽  
...  

AbstractWe study the H NMR line shapes of a sample of a-Si:H under several conditions: 1) as grown, 2) light-soaked for 600 hours, and 3) light-soaked followed by annealing at different temperatures. At T = 7 K, the NMR line shape of the sample after light soaking exhibits an additional doublet compared to that of the sample as-grown. This doublet is an indication of a closely separated hydrogen pair. The distance between the two hydrogen atoms is estimated to be about (2.3 ± 0.2) Å. The concentration of these hydrogen sites is estimated to be between 1017 and 1018 cm-3 consistent with ESR measurements of the defect density after light soaking. This doublet disappears after the sample is annealed at 200°C for 4 hours.


2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Hampl ◽  
Martin Hill ◽  
Luboslav Stárka

3β,7α-Dihydroxyandrost-5-en-17-one (1) (7α-OH-DHEA) and its 7β-hydroxy epimer 2 (7β-OH-DHEA) - 7α- and 7β-hydroxydehydroepiandrosterone - were detected and quantified in three human body fluids: in blood serum, saliva and ejaculate. Specific radioimmunoassay and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry have been used. For the first time the data on changes of these dehydroepiandrosterone metabolites are reported for a representative group of healthy subjects of both sexes (172 females and 217 males) during the life span. The serum levels of both 7-hydroxydehydroepiandrosterone epimers in serum and also in semen were in the low nanomolar range, while concentrations by one order of magnitude lower were found in saliva, but still within the detection limit. The results will serve as a basis for comparative studies of 7-hydroxydehydroepiandrosterone levels under various pathophysiological conditions, with a particular respect to autoimmune disorders.


Author(s):  
Toshihiro Kaneko ◽  
Kenji Yasuoka ◽  
Ayori Mitsutake ◽  
Xiao Cheng Zeng

Multicanonical molecular dynamics simulations are applied, for the first time, to study the liquid-solid and solid-solid transitions in Lennard-Jones (LJ) clusters. The transition temperatures are estimated based on the peak position in the heat capacity versus temperature curve. For LJ31, LJ58 and LJ98, our results on the solid-solid transition temperature are in good agreement with previous ones. For LJ309, the predicted liquid-solid transition temperature is also in agreement with previous result.


2004 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Musso ◽  
F. Matthai ◽  
D. Keutel ◽  
K.-L. Oehme

Isotropic Raman line shapes of simple molecular fluids exhibit critical line broadening near their respective liquid-gas critical points. In order to observe this phenomenon, it is essential that the band position of a given vibrational mode is density-dependent, and that vibrational depopulation processes negligibly contribute to line broadening. Special attention was given to the fact that the isotropic (i.e., nonrotationally broadened) line shape of liquid N2 is affected by resonant intermolecular vibrational interactions between identical oscillators. By means of the well-chosen isotopic mixture (14N2).975 - (14N15N).025, the temperature and density dependences of shift, width, and asymmetry of the resonantly coupled 14N2 and, depending on the S/N ratio available, of the resonantly uncoupled 14N15N were determined, with up to milli-Kelvin resolution, in the coexisting liquid and gas phases and along the critical isochore, using a highest-resolution double monochromator and modern charge-coupled device detection techniques. Clear evidence was found that vibrational resonance couplings are present in all dense phases studied.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 1400
Author(s):  
Ciresthel Bello-Rios ◽  
Sarita Montaño ◽  
Olga Lilia Garibay-Cerdenares ◽  
Lilian Esmeralda Araujo-Arcos ◽  
Marco Antonio Leyva-Vázquez ◽  
...  

The oncogenic potential of high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) is predicated on the production of the E6 and E7 oncoproteins, which are responsible for disrupting the control of the cell cycle. Epidemiological studies have proposed that the presence of the N29S and H51N variants of the HPV16 E7 protein is significantly associated with cervical cancer. It has been suggested that changes in the amino acid sequence of E7 variants may affect the oncoprotein 3D structure; however, this remains uncertain. An analysis of the structural differences of the HPV16 E7 protein and its variants (N29S and H51N) was performed through homology modeling and structural refinement by molecular dynamics simulation. We propose, for the first time, a 3D structure of the E7 reference protein and two of Its variants (N29S and H51N), and conclude that the mutations induced by the variants in N29S and H51N have a significant influence on the 3D structure of the E7 protein of HPV16, which could be related to the oncogenic capacity of this protein.


Author(s):  
N. H. Ngo ◽  
H. Tran ◽  
R. R. Gamache ◽  
J. M. Hartmann

A short overview of recent results on the effects of pressure (collisions) regarding the shape of isolated infrared lines of water vapour is presented. The first part of this study considers the basic collisional quantities, which are the pressure-broadening and -shifting coefficients, central parameters of the Lorentzian (and Voigt) profile and thus of any sophisticated line-shape model. Through comparisons of measured values with semi-classical calculations, the influences of the molecular states (both rotational and vibrational) involved and of the temperature are analysed. This shows the relatively unusual behaviour of H 2 O broadening, with evidence of a significant vibrational dependence and the fact that the broadening coefficient (in cm −1 atm −1 ) of some lines increases with temperature. In the second part of this study, line shapes beyond the Voigt model are considered, thus now taking ‘velocity effects’ into account. These include both the influence of collisionally induced velocity changes that lead to the so-called Dicke narrowing and the influence of the dependence of collisional parameters on the speed of the radiating molecule. Experimental evidence of deviations from the Voigt shape is presented and analysed. The interest of classical molecular dynamics simulations, to model velocity changes, together with semi-classical calculations of the speed-dependent collisional parameters for line-shape predictions from ‘first principles’, are discussed.


1996 ◽  
Vol 446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina E. Bachlechner ◽  
Ingvar Ebbsjö ◽  
Rajiv K. Kalia ◽  
Priya Vashishta

AbstractStructural correlations at the Si(111)/Si3N4(0001) interface are studied using the molecular dynamics (MD) method. In the bulk, Si is described by the Stillinger-Weber potential and Si3N4 by an interaction potential which contains two-body (steric, Coulomb, electronic polarizabilities) and three-body (bond bending and stretching) terms. At the interface, the charge transfer from silicon to nitrogen is taken from LCAO electronic structure calculations. Using these Si, Si3N4 and interface interactions in MD simulations, the interface structure (atomic positions, bond lengths, and bond angles) is determined. Results for fracture in silicon are also presented.


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