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The efficiency of optical trapping of ultracold atoms depend on the atomic dynamic dipole polarizability governing the atom-field interaction. In this article, we have calculated the real and imaginary parts of the dynamic dipole…
In the aim of completing our previous efforts devoted to local and Rydberg transitions in organic compounds, we provide a series of highly-accurate vertical transition energies for intramolecular charge-transfer transitions occurring in…
In the cuprates, the opening of a d-wave superconducting (SC) gap is accompanied by a redistribution of spectral weight at energies two orders of magnitude larger than this gap. This indicates the importance to the pairing mechanism of…
The magnetic dipole, the electric quadrupole and the Coulomb quadrupole amplitudes for the transition \gamma N\to \Delta are calculated in quenched lattice QCD at \beta=6.0 with Wilson fermions. Using a new method combining an optimal…
The band gaps and spectral shifts of CdS, CdSe, CdTe, AlP, GaP, GaAs, and InP semiconductor clusters are calculated from band structure calculations using accurate local and non-local empirical pseudopotentials. The effect of spin-orbit…
To enrich and enhance the diversity of the \textsc{quest} database of highly-accurate excitation energies [\href{https://doi.org/10.1002/wcms.1517}{V\'eril \textit{et al.}, \textit{WIREs Comput.~Mol.~Sci.}~\textbf{11}, e1517 (2021)}], we…
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