Weisskopf-Wigner decay of excited oscillator states

doi:10.1364/OE.2.000378

Optics Express

Editor: J. H. Eberly
Vol. 2, Iss. 9 — Apr. 27, 1998
pp: 378–390

Weisskopf-Wigner decay of excited oscillator states

Stig Torsten Stenholm and Kalle-Antti Suominen »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 2, Issue 9, pp. 378-390 (1998)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.2.000378

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Abstract

We investigate the analogy between exponential decay of a quantum system into a continuum, and laser-induced excitation of a molecular wave packet. We find that the analogy exists, but it is not as clear-cut for the excited vibrational states of the electronic molecular ground state, as it is for the corresponding vibrational ground state.

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OCIS Codes
(270.0270) Quantum optics : Quantum optics
(270.2500) Quantum optics : Fluctuations, relaxations, and noise

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Focus Issue: Control of loss and decoherence in quantum systems

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Original Manuscript: November 14, 1997
Published: April 27, 1998

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Stig Torsten Stenholm and Kalle-Antti Suominen, "Weisskopf-Wigner decay of excited oscillator states," Opt. Express 2, 378-390 (1998)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-2-9-378

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V. Weisskopf and E. Wigner, "Berechnung der nat urlichen Linienbreite auf Grund der Diracschen Lichttheorie", Z. Phys. 63, 54 (1930). [CrossRef]
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B. M. Garraway and K.-A. Suominen, "Wave-packet dynamics: new physics and chemistry in femto-time", Rep. Prog. Phys. 58, 365-419 (1995). [CrossRef]
A. Paloviita, K.-A. Suominen and S. Stenholm, "Weisskopf-Wigner model for wavepacket excitation", J. Phys. B 30, 2623-2633 (1997), http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9703011 [CrossRef]
K.-A. Suominen, B. M. Garraway and S. Stenholm, "Wave-packet model for excitation by ultra-short pulses", Phys. Rev. A 45, 3060-3070 (1992). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
E. U. Condon, "Nuclear motions associated with electron transitions in diatomic molecules", Phys. Rev. 32, 858-872 (1928). [CrossRef]
M. S. Child, Semiclassical Mechanics with Molecular Applications, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991), 122.
K. Burnett, P. S. Julienne and K.-A. Suominen, "Laser-driven collisions between atoms in Bose-Einstein condensed gas", Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 1416-1419 (1996). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

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U. Fano, "Effects of conguration interaction on intensities and phase shifts", Phys. Rev. 124, 1866-1878 (1961). [CrossRef]
V. Weisskopf and E. Wigner, "Berechnung der nat urlichen Linienbreite auf Grund der Diracschen Lichttheorie", Z. Phys. 63, 54 (1930). [CrossRef]
R. E. Peierls, in Proceedings of the 1954 Glasgow Conference (Pergamon Press, New York, 1955), 296.
B. Zumino, in Lectures on Field Theory and the Many-Body Problem, ed. E. R. Caianello (Academic Press, New York, 1961), 27.
M. Levy, in Lectures on Field Theory and the Many-Body Problem, ed. E. R. Caianello (Academic Press, New York, 1961), 47.
M. L. Goldberger and K. M. Watson, Collision Theory, (J. Wiley & Sons, New York, 1964), Chap. 8.
J. Jortner, S. A. Rice and R. M. Hochstrasser, Adv. Photochem., 7, 149 (1969).
M. Gruebele and A. H. Zewail, "Ultrafast reaction dynamics", Physics Today 43(5), 24-33, 1990. [CrossRef]
B. M. Garraway and K.-A. Suominen, "Wave-packet dynamics: new physics and chemistry in femto-time", Rep. Prog. Phys. 58, 365-419 (1995). [CrossRef]
A. Paloviita, K.-A. Suominen and S. Stenholm, "Weisskopf-Wigner model for wavepacket excitation", J. Phys. B 30, 2623-2633 (1997), http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph/9703011 [CrossRef]
K.-A. Suominen, B. M. Garraway and S. Stenholm, "Wave-packet model for excitation by ultra-short pulses", Phys. Rev. A 45, 3060-3070 (1992). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
E. U. Condon, "Nuclear motions associated with electron transitions in diatomic molecules", Phys. Rev. 32, 858-872 (1928). [CrossRef]
M. S. Child, Semiclassical Mechanics with Molecular Applications, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991), 122.
K. Burnett, P. S. Julienne and K.-A. Suominen, "Laser-driven collisions between atoms in Bose-Einstein condensed gas", Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 1416-1419 (1996). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

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