title: Collision induced raman scattering as a probe of covalent bonding in mercury diatoms
abstract: We show that collision induced Raman spectra of mercury vapors can be understood if a specific contribution to the pair polarizability due to covalent contribution to interatomic interaction is taken into account. Such a result is important because it demonstrates the possibility to use Raman spectroscopy in order to study the nature of the short range interaction in mercury and presumably in all divalent metal pairs.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia, Unita di Ricerca di Firenze, Firenze, Italy and and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Firenze, Largo E. Fermi 2, I-50125 Firenze, Italy.
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ceccherini
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moraldi