Chapter 6
Electric Dipole Radiation

The Weisskopf-Wigner approximation

Fermi
Merzbacher
Evidence available
Compare with theory
Published article

Lorentz-Drude theory

Radiated Power
Damped Harmonic Oscillator
Special cases 1 and 2
Special case 3, real roots
Complex roots
Resulting equation
Jackson's treatment
Lamb shift analog
SHO lifetime
Radiational and collisional damping
States and levels
Application to Ca II H and K lines
Application to Na I D lines
Formulae

Angular polarization

E1 radiation pattern
Linear dipole representation
Angular distribution
Plot
Pi and sigma patterns
Instrumental polarizations
Magic angles

Intensities in various spectral hierarchies

Extended hierarchies
Lifetimes and rates at various hierarchies
Term and multiplet values
Line intensities
"Natural" excitation
Line strength angular factors

Hydrogenic dipole matrix elements

Angular and radial portions
Six-J symbols
Radial integral
Specific calculations
Multiplet strengths
Lifetimes
Formulae
Summed A's, n=2,3
Summed A's, n=4
Branching fractions
Level diagram
Decay curve
Tabulations

Commutator relations

Dirac bra-ket
Commutator algebra
Length and velocity
Acceleration
Thomas-Reiche-Kuhn
Sum rule
Applied to Na
Applied to H

Apply to the dipole polarizability

Quadratic Stark effect
Applied to Na I and Mg II
ad isoelectronically
Lindgård Nielsen
Mg I in FTS solar spectra
Continuum states and confidence limits
Hydrogen continuum states
Mg II extended
Ca II
Tabulation
Zn II

Application of sums to other parameters

Adiabatic and nonadiabatic polarizabilities
Quadrupole polarizability
b and aq isoelectronically
Generalized f-sums
Index of refraction of gases
continued
continued
Values for H and inert gases
Computations of index
Hydrogenic f-sums

Contribution of core to transition moment

Dipole moment of a complex atom
Dipole moment
Using hydrogenlike values
Formula
Application to S V and Cl VI

Disappearance spectroscopy

Hydrogenic matrix
Bates-Damgaard Tables
Sinusoidal formulation
Burgess and Seaton formulation
Cancellation landscape
Cu s-p plot
Cu p-d plot
Cu d-f plot
Penetration and polarization quantum defects
Isoelectronic variation of polarization QD
Isoelectronic variation of relativistic QD
Polarization shifts in cancellations

Application to coinage metal-like sequences

Coinage metal-like systems
Atomic radii
Ag cancellations
Au cancellations
Hg II 5p decay curve
Ions with severe cancellations
Application to Au sequence
Contributions to sums
Tabulations
Dipole polarizabilities

Application to the K sequence

K s-p plot
K p-d plot
K 6p-8d
C II H and K lines


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