Spectroscopy of Mn atoms isolated in solid ⁴He

Moroshkin, Peter; Lebedev, Victor; Weis, Antoine

doi:10.1063/1.4880556

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Spectroscopy of Mn atoms isolated in solid ⁴He

Moroshkin, Peter Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland - Low Temperature Physics Laboratory, Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, Japan
Lebedev, Victor Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland - Low Temperature Physics Laboratory, Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, Japan
Weis, Antoine Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

07.06.2014

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The Journal of Chemical Physics. - 2014, vol. 140, no. 21, p. 214314

English We present an experimental study of the laser-induced luminescence spectra of Mn atoms in solid helium matrices. We observe transitions of the valence electron and of inner-shell electrons. We find that the Mn-He interaction perturbs the inner-shell transitions to a lesser extent than the valence-electron transitions. The observed lineshapes of the inner-shell transitions of Mn are similar to those of an inner-shell transition in Ba studied earlier. At the same time, they are more strongly perturbed than the corresponding transitions in Au and Cu under the same conditions. We suggest a qualitative explanation of these observations based on the atomic bubble model. Our results also suggest that the inner-shell transitions of Mn in solid He are more strongly perturbed than the same lines of Mn isolated in solid Ar or Kr matrices.

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Faculté des sciences et de médecine

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Département de Physique

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