Experimental quantum chemistry at ultrahigh magnetic fields: Some opportunities
✍ Scribed by Johndale C. Solem; Maurice G. Sheppard
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 452 KB
- Volume
- 64
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7608
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✦ Synopsis
We discuss the opportunities for experiments in quantum chemistry and molecular physics at magnetic fields in excess of 100 Tesla. In a multinational collaboration, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have led a campaign of experiments using explosively driven generators with peak fields between 130 and 1000 Tesla. Most of these experiments explored quantum-limit phenomena. We expect to conduct a similar campaign in the spring of 1997. We are also planning experiments with Ž . several reusable laboratory facilities: 1 the Pegasus high-energy-density facility, an operating 4 MJ fast capacitor bank system, which should be capable of reaching fields of Ž . 600 Tesla in practical experimental volumes; 2 the 100 Tesla nondestructive magnet, Ž . which is expected to be in operation by 1998; and 3 the Atlas facility, 38 MJ fast capacitor bank system, which should be capable of reaching fields of 1800 Tesla in practical experimental volumes. Atlas should be in operation by 1999. We also discuss some of the experimental techniques developed for both physics and chemistry experiments at high magnetic fields.