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Suppose I have a two-level atom trapped in a certain area, initially in ground state. I have a light shining on it, the atom jump from ground state to the excited state and emission a photon spontaneously. Can I say this is a scattering process?
 
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Yes. In the case of re-emission of the same frequency it's Rayleigh (elastic) scattering and if it's a different one (inelelastic) then it's Raman scattering.
 

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