Open AccessWeisskopf-Wigner decay of excited oscillator states
Author(s) -
Stig Stenholm,
KalleAntti Suominen
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.2.000378
Subject(s) - excited state , physics , wave packet , atomic physics , excitation , ground state , quantum , coherent states , wigner distribution function , laser , quantum mechanics
We investigate the analogy between exponential decay of a quantum system into a continuum, and laser-induced excitation of a molecular wave packet. We find that the analogy exists, but it is not as clear-cut for the excited vibrational states of the electronic molecular ground state, as it is for the corresponding vibrational ground state.