Spontaneous emission Definition and 30 Threads

Are there any kind of observed and experimentally verified processes or mechanisms where photon emission occurs and which are directly cause by spacetime expansion in some way?

I am reading this chapter 3 from the book called The Quantum Vacuum by P.Milonni.(Attached in the pdf, look at chapter 3.2 Spontaneous emission)There they say that spontaneous emission is due to both quantum fluctuations and radiation reaction. They say the transitions induced by the quantum...

Hello! I thought that in spontaneous emission (say for an atom with 2 energy levels) we have the electron in the excited state and then it decays to the ground state emitting a photon at the resonance frequency. However I saw the attached figure, which introduces Mollow triplet. I understand the...

I'm wondering what the relationship between blackbody radiation and spontaneous emission is. As far as I know, there are three sources of EM radiation - thermal radiation, oscillating dipole (multipole?), and LASER. And it seems like light emission from an atom can be separated into two...

I realize that nothing causes an excited atom to emit a photon, and that it's a random process. But someone was asking me about why energized systems in general tend to lose their energy to the environment and move toward equilibrium. I mentioned that an inflated balloon, given a hole, will tend...

Hi All In another thread I answered was a question related to this and noticed another as well, so I thought I would give the full answer in its own thread rather than write it out twice. The other question has been deleted but here is the full detail anyway. First see...

I understand the concept of stimulated emission and how it works as light amplification, but a certain technicality in its process eludes me. How is the inciting photon actually interacting with the electron that falls to a lower energy level? In every physical interaction that I know of there...

Hi, Suppose I have a 1D material of length L, and I want to calculate the spontanious emission rate Γ at ressonance frequeny. From my understanding, when light passes in a material at ressonance frequency it gets absorved by an electron in the atom, and after a spontaneous emission time tspont...

Feynman tells us, "The probability that an atom will emit a photon into a particular final state is increased by the factor (n+1) if there are already n photons in that state." 4–4 Emission and absorption of photons, http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/III_04.html The 1 in (N+1) comes from...

Hi, it is well known that spontaneous emission of an atom can be enhanced, if the atom sits at a node of the vacuum standing wave field in a cavity. My question is, why is it the node? At a node of a standing wave, there is zero intensity, so there should be no interaction between the atom and...

I have heard of frustrated spontaneous emission that somehow says that an atom that normally emit light will cease to do so when its surroundings is incapable of absorbing light. How is this possible, and is this experimentally proven?

I'm reading Gerald Folland's "Quantum Field Theory: A Tourist Guide for Mathematicians" and I'm up to Section 6.2 which is called "A toy model for electrons in an atom". He has a nonrelativistic particle of mass M and a scalar field with quanta of mass m and the state space for the particle is...

In Griffith and Sakurai QM book, spontaneous emission is treated as a closed system subject to time-dependent perturbation. Yet in quantum optics sponantanoues emission is treated as in the form master equation of density matrix. Even in two levels system where there is only one spontaneous...

Let's consider a two state quantum system in which an electron is either in the ground state or in the excited state with the energy difference E. We know that if we put this system in a monochromatic electromagnetic field (with frequency E/h) the electron can become excited by means of...

By Spontaneous emission it is said that the electron jumps to the higher energy state and then after some time "spontaneously" falls to the lower state. It is still not clear to me, what makes the electron to "fall" back to the lower state, if higher state is also allowed state and excitation...

Does entropy increase during spontaneous emission? If not, how is the information about the emitted photon mode encoded into the initial state of the atom (and/or environment)? If so, where does the extra information come from?

I would appreciate very much if you could help me with a puzzling question that seems a paradox to me. Every excited state of an atom (every line of the characteristic spectrum) has a “width”: the higher the width, the shorter the lifetime of the state, and when the atom de-excitates we get...

How to change the upper step to lower step on the figure? Why does N2(0) change to N2(t) the exp(-t/21) will be missed? Thanks.

Hi there, In regards to the Spontaneous Emission of a photon from an atom, after that process occurs, is it possible according to the reversibility of the laws of Quantum Mechanics that the photon is re-absorbed by the atom? According to the reversible equation governing the process, would that...

I have a quantum harmonic oscillator at energy level n_1, and I want to know how much time will pass before it spontaneously drops to energy level n_2. I know about the position operator, momentum operator, energy operator, and angular momentum operators. Is there a "time until a system...

I'm studying spontaneous emission and I'm in trouble to understand the following: In a hydrogen atom we have distinct energy levels with different energy values associated to them. E1 = -13,6 eV E2 = -3,4 eV E3 = -1,51 eV To go from the first to the second energy level we need a photon...

Hi, In quantum optics, the interaction between light and atoms is described by a Hamiltonian of the form d.E where d is the dipole moment of the atom. The picture given is basically that this is a vector and we take the the dot product with this and the electric field vector (whose direction...

Hello forum, I have a question about photonic crystals. From Wikipedia: "photons (behaving as waves) propagate through this structure - or not - depending on their wavelength. Wavelengths of light that are allowed to travel are known as modes, and groups of allowed modes form bands...

Hello Forum, when a wavefield is incident of an atom and the photon have the right energy (equal to the band gap energy), the photon is absorbed and disappear... But isn't the photon re-emitted later on and allowed to propagate through the material or does all its energy get lost into heat...

Hi.. Does the Einstein's coefficient for spontaneous emission B depend upon the energy difference between the two levels?

Hey all, I am just wondering if one can directly calculate the Einstein coefficient in spontaneous emission of, say, two-level atoms through feynman diagrams? I searched for sources in google but could not find anything. Thanks a lot for an answer! Wit best regards, blue2script

Hi all, I'm doing a project that includes an hydrogen 2s->1s decay and I need the full derivation of this process, so if anyone can recommend about a book it would be great. I first thought it should be easy to find but to tell you the truth I have looked and found scratch. 10x a lot...

As we know, if we have a group of atoms at a moment N(t) in an exited state, it will exponentially decrease according to the relation: N(t)=N(0) exp(-At)=N(0) exp(-t/(tau)) Where A is the Einsteins constant for the spontaneos emission, In my book they defined tau in the relation I...

any isolated macroscopic system, like a large group of atoms, always tends to reach a state that has the maxium entropy. if the electrons in this group of atoms are excited, they will give out their energy so that more degrees of freedom are activated, hence the entropy of the whole system...

Can someone please explain why an excited electron in an atom decays to the ground state, if energy eigenstates are stationary states.