Level Population

Figure A3.13.16. Illustration of the level populations (eorresponding to the C-C oseillator states) from various treatments in the model of figure A3.13.15 for C2Hg at a total energy E = (he) 41 000 em and a tlneshold energy = (he) 31 000 em The pomts are mieroeanonieal equilibrium distributions. The erosses result from the solution of the master equation for IVR at steady state and the lines are thennal populations at the temperatures indieated (from [38] quant, is ealeulated with quantum densities of states, elass. with elassieal meehanieal densities.).

Unless the cavity is tuned to a particular wavelength the vibration-rotation transition with the highest gain is the P-branch transition involving the rotational level which has the highest population in the 3 state. This is P(22), with J" = 22 and J = 21, at normal laser temperatures. The reason why this P-branch line is so dominant is that thermal redistribution of rotational level populations is faster than the population depletion due to emission. 

Fig. 4. Decay scheme ofas an example of /5 -decay, showing the spins and parities of the levels populated in the daughter nucleus and the energies in keV of these levels, where (" ) represents the principal decay mode, (—fc.) an alternative mode, and (- - ) is a highly improbable transition.

Fig. 5. Decay scheme of showing the energies, spins, and parities of the levels populated in the daughter nucleus, Xe, and the energies in keV, emission probabihties (in %), and multipolarities of the y-ray transitions. There is a strong dependence of the y-ray lifetime on the y-character. The Ml + E2 y-ray of 177 keV has a half-hfe of 2.1 ps the half-hfe of the 164-keV M4 y-ray is 1.03 X 10 s.

The sum in the denominator relates to the quantum states. The formula is often written in terms of energy levels rather than quantum states in the case that some of the energy levels are degenerate, with degeneracy factors gi then the formula can be modified to refer to energy-level populations directly ... 

Fio. 3. Schematic representation of energy levels, populations and resultant patterns of polarization in the n.m.r. s]3eotrum of an AB spin system. (Relative population of the energy levels is indicated by the thickness of the bars.)... 

Theoretical level populations. Sinee there are population variations on time seale shorter than some level lifetimes, a complete description of the excitation has been modeled solving optical Bloch equations Beacon model, Bellenger, 2002) at CEA. The model has been compared with a laboratory experiment set up at CEA/Saclay (Eig. 21). The reasonable discrepancy when both beams at 589 and 569 nm are phase modulated is very likely to spectral jitter, which is not modeled velocity classes of Na atoms excited at the intermediate level cannot be excited to the uppermost level because the spectral profile of the 569 nm beam does not match the peaks of that of the 589 nm beam. 

Deduce atomic level populations at each depth point, using LTE or preferably something better. 

Consider continuous radiation with specific intensity I incident normally on a uniform slab with a source function 5 = Bv(Tex) unit volume per unit solid angle to the volume absorption coefficient Kp and is equal to the Planck function Bv of an excitation temperature Tcx obtained by force-fitting the ratio of upper to lower state atomic level populations to the Boltzmann formula, Eq. (3.4). For the interstellar medium at optical and UV wavelengths, effectively S = 0. 

Although this process populates the 4F9/2 (Er) level, it is filled in a more efficient way by the following transitions from the 4I13/2 (Er) level, populated by nonradiative relaxation from the 4In/2 (Er) level ... 

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Since the CO2 laser line corresponds to a transition between two excited vibrational levels, only those CO2 molecules can be excited by absorption of the laser line which are in the (OOl)-level, populated at 300 ° K with about 1 % of the total number of molecules. In spite of this low population density, the laser-excited fluorescence method is easily achieved because of the large exciting laser intensity. 

Fig. 8. Collision-induced satellite spectrum of Naj around X = 5290 A, due to fluorescence originating from rotational levels populated by collision from the V = 6, / = 43 level in the state, which was excited by the X = 4880 A argon laser line. (From ref.

When a system is in thermodynamic equilibrium the level population, i.e. the number of atoms A in the excited state, is given by the Boltzmann distribution law ... 

Not knowing otherwise, we make the a priori assumption that any set of populations Nj (that is consistent with the two constraints above) is possible, and must be considered. Assume that the probability of finding the system with a certain set of j-level populations Nj is proportional to W ( Nj ) of Eq. 8.28, which is the total number of ways of arranging the N molecules into that set Ay of populations (consistent with the constraints). 

For any homonudear diatomic molecule whose nuclei have nonzero spin, it should, in principle, be possible to isolate a modified form with only even-numbered rotational levels populated. (For /=0, half the rotational levels do not exist.) However, only for H2 and D2 has this been achieved. The small moments of inertia of these light molecules give a relatively large spacing between 7 = 0 and 7= 1 rotational levels, so that we can get nearly all the molecules into the 7 = 0 level at a temperature above the freezing point of the substance. 

Figure 6. Coherent population dynamics calculated using the density matrix equation (3) for different delays (a-c) of the laser pulses. Upper part Time evolution of the Rabi frequencies of both laser pulses. Lower part Calculated time evolution of the level populations for three different delays.

All these interactions cause considerable line broadening, making the observation of NMR signals rather difficult in some cases (e.g. in paramagnetic compounds). Briefly summarized, T2 affects NMR signal line widths, but not the energy level population as does T1. 

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