Superallowed electric-quadrupole transitions of ions in crystals
- 16 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 63 (16) , 1716-1718
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.63.1716
Abstract
A collective, many-electron response of a host crystal to the electric field of a photon can enhance the oscillator strength for a quadrupole transition of an ion (imbedded in the crystal) by 8 orders of magnitude, e.g., from to .
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