Two level

Figure 6.25a shows the same grand composite curve with two levels of saturated steam used as a hot utility. The steam system in Fig. 6.25a shows the low-pressure steam being desuperheated by injection of boiler feedwater after pressure reduction to maintain saturated conditions. Figure 6.256 shows again the same grand composite curve but with hot oil used as a hot utility. 

A schematic of the two-level refrigeration system is shown in Fig. 6.406. It should be noted that the single exchangers represented in Fig. 6.406 might in practice be several exchangers. 

Figure 6.40 A two-level refrigeration system for Example 6.6 with heat rejection to cooling water.

Figure 16.19 shows the grand composite curve plotted from the problem table cascade. The two levels of steam generation are shown. 

Figure 16.19 Grand composite curve for Example 16.3 showing two levels of steam generation.

Torgunakov V.G. et al. Two-level system for thermographic monitoring of industrial thermal units. Proc. of VTI Intern. S-T conference. Cherepovets, Russia, pp. 45-46, 1997. 2. Solovyov A.V., Solovyova Ye.V. et al. The method of Dirichlet cells for solution of gas-dynamic equations in cylindrical coordinates, M., 1986, 32 p. 

Consider a quantum system with two levels, a and b, with energy levels and Furthemiore, let the perturbation... 

In the previous section we discussed light and matter at equilibrium in a two-level quantum system. For the remainder of this section we will be interested in light and matter which are not at equilibrium. In particular, laser light is completely different from the thennal radiation described at the end of the previous section. In the first place, only one, or a small number of states of the field are occupied, in contrast with the Planck distribution of occupation numbers in thennal radiation. Second, the field state can have a precise phase-, in thennal radiation this phase is assumed to be random. If multiple field states are occupied in a laser they can have a precise phase relationship, something which is achieved in lasers by a teclmique called mode-locking Multiple frequencies with a precise phase relation give rise to laser pulses in time. Nanosecond experiments... 

We now add die field back into the Hamiltonian, and examine the simplest case of a two-level system coupled to coherent, monochromatic radiation. This material is included in many textbooks (e.g. [6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11]). The system is described by a Hamiltonian having only two eigenstates, i and with energies = and Define coq = - co. The most general wavefunction for this system may be written as... 

A more intuitive, and more general, approach to the study of two-level systems is provided by the Feynman-Vemon-Flellwarth geometrical picture. To understand this approach we need to first introduce the density matrix. 

We saw that the time-dependent populations in each of the two levels is given by and... 

The strategy for representing this differential equation geometrically is to expand both H and p in tenns of the tln-ee Pauli spin matrices, 02 and and then view the coefficients of these matrices as time-dependent vectors in three-dimensional space. We begin by writing die the two-level system Hamiltonian in the following general fomi. 

Using these vectors, we can rewrite the Liouville equation for the two-level system as... 

It follows that there are two kinds of processes required for an arbitrary initial state to relax to an equilibrium state the diagonal elements must redistribute to a Boltzmaim distribution and the off-diagonal elements must decay to zero. The first of these processes is called population decay in two-level systems this time scale is called Ty The second of these processes is called dephasmg, or coherence decay in two-level systems there is a single time scale for this process called T. There is a well-known relationship in two level systems, valid for weak system-bath coupling, that... 

As an example, consider the two-level system, with relaxation that arises from spontaneous emission. In this case there is just a single V. ... 

For the two-level system, the evolution equation for p may also be expressed, as before, in tenns of the tliree-vector r ... 

Equation (A1.6.64) describes the relaxation to equilibrium of a two-level system in tenns of a vector equation. It is the analogue of tire Bloch equation, originally developed for magnetic resonance, in the optical regime and hence is called the optical Bloch equation. 

Much of the previous section dealt with two-level systems. Real molecules, however, are not two-level systems for many purposes there are only two electronic states that participate, but each of these electronic states has many states corresponding to different quantum levels for vibration and rotation. A coherent femtosecond pulse has a bandwidth which may span many vibrational levels when the pulse impinges on the molecule it excites a coherent superposition of all tliese vibrational states—a vibrational wavepacket. In this section we deal with excitation by one or two femtosecond optical pulses, as well as continuous wave excitation in section A 1.6.4 we will use the concepts developed here to understand nonlinear molecular electronic spectroscopy. 

Al.6.101) are precisely equivalent to these derivatives the rate of change of a population is proportional to the instantaneous coherence, a relationship which can be observed already in the vector precession model of the two-level system ( section Al.6.2.3). 

Allen L and Eberly J H 1987 Optical Resonance and Two-Level Atoms (New York Dover)... 

Figure A3.13.14. Illustration of the quantum evolution (pomts) and Pauli master equation evolution (lines) in quantum level structures with two levels (and 59 states each, left-hand side) and tln-ee levels (and 39 states each, right-hand side) corresponding to a model of the energy shell IVR (liorizontal transition in figure...

A3.13.1). From [38]. The two-level structure (left) has two models I I = const and random signs (upper part), random V.j but V < V.j < (lower part). The right-hand side shows an evolution with initial diagonal density matrix (upper part) and a single trajectory (lower part). 

Ulness D J and Albrecht A C 1996 Four-wave mixing in a Bloch two-level system with incoherent laser light having a Lorentzian spectral density analytic solution and a diagrammatic approach Rhys. Rev. A 53 1081-95... 

Application of an oscillating magnetic field at the resonance frequency induces transitions in both directions between the two levels of the spin system. The rate of the induced transitions depends on the MW power which is proportional to the square of oi = (the amplitude of the oscillating magnetic field) (see equation (bl.15.7)) and also depends on the number of spins in each level. Since the probabilities of upward ( P) a)) and downward ( a) p)) transitions are equal, resonance absorption can only be detected when there is a population difference between the two spin levels. This is the case at thennal equilibrium where there is a slight excess of spins in the energetically lower p)-state. The relative population of the two-level system in thennal equilibrium is given by the Boltzmaim distribution... 

Here all couplings are ignored except the direct couplings between the initial and final states as in a two-level atom. The coupled equations to be solved are... 

Here the distortion (diagonal) and back coupling matrix elements in the two-level equations (section B2.2.8.4) are ignored so that = exp(ik.-R) remains an imdistorted plane wave. The asymptotic solution for ij-when compared with the asymptotic boundary condition then provides the Bom elastic ( =f) or inelastic scattering amplitudes... 

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