The HITRAN2020 molecular spectroscopic database Gordon, I.E.; Rothman, L.S.; Hargreaves, R.J. ...
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer/Journal of quantitative spectroscopy & radiative transfer,
01/2022, Volume:
277
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
•The HITRAN2020 molecular spectroscopic database and its validations are presented.•Extended line-by-line coverage to 55 molecules, with new isotopologues included.•Increased spectral and dynamic ...ranges for multiple molecules.•Quality and amount of spectral parameters (including sophisticated line shapes) is increased.•Updates to cross sections, CIA, software tools & auxiliary data also described.
The HITRAN database is a compilation of molecular spectroscopic parameters. It was established in the early 1970s and is used by various computer codes to predict and simulate the transmission and emission of light in gaseous media (with an emphasis on terrestrial and planetary atmospheres). The HITRAN compilation is composed of five major components: the line-by-line spectroscopic parameters required for high-resolution radiative-transfer codes, experimental infrared absorption cross-sections (for molecules where it is not yet feasible for representation in a line-by-line form), collision-induced absorption data, aerosol indices of refraction, and general tables (including partition sums) that apply globally to the data. This paper describes the contents of the 2020 quadrennial edition of HITRAN. The HITRAN2020 edition takes advantage of recent experimental and theoretical data that were meticulously validated, in particular, against laboratory and atmospheric spectra. The new edition replaces the previous HITRAN edition of 2016 (including its updates during the intervening years).
All five components of HITRAN have undergone major updates. In particular, the extent of the updates in the HITRAN2020 edition range from updating a few lines of specific molecules to complete replacements of the lists, and also the introduction of additional isotopologues and new (to HITRAN) molecules: SO, CH3F, GeH4, CS2, CH3I and NF3. Many new vibrational bands were added, extending the spectral coverage and completeness of the line lists. Also, the accuracy of the parameters for major atmospheric absorbers has been increased substantially, often featuring sub-percent uncertainties. Broadening parameters associated with the ambient pressure of water vapor were introduced to HITRAN for the first time and are now available for several molecules.
The HITRAN2020 edition continues to take advantage of the relational structure and efficient interface available at www.hitran.org and the HITRAN Application Programming Interface (HAPI). The functionality of both tools has been extended for the new edition.
To improve plasma-assisted processes, optical spectroscopy provides in situ measurements of plasma parameters including chemical composition, number density and temperature, amongst others. ...Traditionally, tunable continuous-wave (CW) laser absorption spectroscopy is used for in situ detection and quantification of stable and transient species in plasmas (e.g., 1). However, the narrow spectral coverage of many CW lasers reduces the number of transitions that can be interrogated at one time, and therefore limits the available information regarding the number of species present, their mole fractions and temperatures.
Abstract
Cross-sensitivity limits accurate quantitative detection of species concentrations in all sensor technologies, including laser-based absorption techniques. Absorption sensors capture a ...signal that combines contributions from all interfering species at a given detection wavelength. Careful selection of the probed spectral line, broadband detection, or upstream separation can partially mitigate cross-sensitivity, however, weak or unidentified signal interference remains a challenge for accuracy. Here, we present a proof-of-principle study to overcome cross-sensitivity by taking advantage of the distinct optical saturation characteristics of different gas mixture components. By controlling the absorption contribution of a selected species by intentional optical saturation, simultaneous and quantitative detection of two interfering species becomes possible even without the need for spectral scanning, hence offering two species–one wavelength detection (2S1W) capability. Demonstrated with direct absorption and cavity-ringdown setups, the method offers a new, previously unexploited opportunity to further enhance laser-based analyzers for complex gas mixture analysis in environmental, medical, and technical applications.
We consider a finite one-dimensional Ising spin chain under the influence of a dissipative Lindblad environment obeying the Born-Markovian constrain in presence of an external magnetic field with ...open boundary conditions. We study the effect of a single impurity, located at the terminal or center of the chain, on the time evolution and asymptotic steady state of the bipartite entanglement in the chain starting from a maximally entangled initial state. We found that the impurity has a significant effect on the bipartite entanglement of its nearest spins and can be used to tune their steady state value but has almost no noticeable impact on the far ones. At finite temperature, the thermal excitations suppress the dynamics of the system and reduce the value of the steady state and may completely wipe it out as the temperature is increased, which eliminates the effect of the impurity in that case.
Recently new novel magnetic phases were shown to exist in the asymptotic steady states of spin systems coupled to dissipative environments at zero temperature. Tuning the different system parameters ...led to quantum phase transitions among those states. We study, here, a finite two-dimensional Heisenberg triangular spin lattice coupled to a dissipative Markovian Lindblad environment at finite temperature. We show how applying an inhomogeneous magnetic field to the system at different degrees of anisotropy may significantly affect the spin states, and the entanglement properties and distribution among the spins in the asymptotic steady state of the system. In particular, applying an inhomogeneous field with an inward (growing) gradient toward the central spin is found to considerably enhance the nearest neighbor entanglement and its robustness against the thermal dissipative decay effect in the completely anisotropic (Ising) system, whereas the beyond nearest neighbor ones vanish entirely. The spins of the system in this case reach different steady states depending on their positions in the lattice. However, the inhomogeneity of the field shows no effect on the entanglement in the completely isotropic (XXX) system, which vanishes asymptotically under any system configuration and the spins relax to a separable (disentangled) steady state with all the spins reaching a common spin state. Interestingly, applying the same field to a partially anisotropic (XYZ) system does not just enhance the nearest neighbor entanglements and their thermal robustness but all the long-range ones as well, while the spins relax asymptotically to very distinguished spin states, which is a sign of a critical behavior taking place at this combination of system anisotropy and field inhomogeneity.
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