Quantum Treatment of Multiple Real Transitions

J. C. Ashley; R. H. Ritchie

doi:10.1103/PhysRev.174.1572

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Quantum Treatment of Multiple Real Transitions

J. C. Ashley and R. H. Ritchie

Health Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 and Department of Physics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916

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Phys. Rev. 174, 1572 – Published 25 October, 1968

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.174.1572

Abstract

We give a quantum-mechanical derivation of the probability that an energetic particle, interacting with an extended many-particle system which possesses a large number of eigenstates lying close together in energy, will excite $n$ of these eigenstates during an interaction time $t$ .

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J. C. Ashley and R. H. Ritchie, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 13, 238 (1968)
I. Prigogine and F. Mayné, Phys. Letters 21, 42 (1966)
W. Heitler, Quantum Theory of Radiation (Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 1954), 3rd ed

[c1] J. C. Ashley and R. H. Ritchie, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 13, 238 (1968)

[c2] I. Prigogine and F. Mayné, Phys. Letters 21, 42 (1966)

[c3] W. Heitler, Quantum Theory of Radiation (Clarendon Press, Oxford, England, 1954), 3rd ed

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