Lifetime of excited atomic states

1 March 1986

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 33 (3) , 1677-1682
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.33.1677

Abstract

In this paper we derive an expression for the lifetime of excited atomic states taking account of contributions due to nonresonant two-photon transitions. Explicit integration of the two-photon emission spectrum is not required. The results are applied to the case of the hydrogen atom.

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