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Pressure Broadening in the Microwave and Infra-Red Regions

P. W. Anderson*,†

  • Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • *National Research Council Predoctoral Fellow.
  • †Now at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
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Phys. Rev. 76, 647 – Published 1 September, 1949

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.76.647

Abstract

In this paper a generalized theory of collision broadening is developed, adequate for predicting line breadths in the microwave and infra-red regions. This theory differs from previous ones in taking into account transitions among quantum states caused by collisions, although it is limited to a classical picture of the relative motion of the colliding molecules as a whole. Formulas are derived for computing approximate line broadening collision cross-sections from known intermolecular interactions, and the results of the theory are successfully compared with experiments on self-broadening in the ammonia inversion spectrum and the vibrational band spectra of HCl and HCN. Some cases of foreign gas broadening in the microwave region are examined, but it is concluded that in general the Van der Waals interaction, commonly assumed to be the force important in causing foreign gas broadening, is not adequate to cause the observed broadenings. The more complicated types of forces which become important at short range would have to be taken into account to give good agreement with experiment in these cases.

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Phys. Rev. 76, 647– Published 1 September, 1949
  • Received 12 May 1949

© 1949 American Physical Society

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