A model of interband radiative transition

DOI10.2969/JMSJ/1191334085MaRDI QIDQ1885102zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jaroslav Dittrich, Pavel Exner, Masao Hirokawa

Publication date 28 October 2004

Published in Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0011009

zbMATH Keywords

embedded eigenvaluesexponential decayradiative transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of operator theory in the physical sciences (47N50) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Quantum optics (81V80)

Abstract: We consider a simple model which is a caricature of a crystal interacting with a radiation field. The model has two bands of continuous spectrum and the particle can pass from the upper one to the lower by radiating a photon, the coupling between the excited and deexcited states being of a Friedrichs type. Under suitable regularity and analyticity assumptions we find the continued resolvent and show that for weak enough coupling it has a curve-type singularity in the lower halfplane which is a deformation of the upper-band spectral cut. We then find a formula for the decay amplitude and show that for a fixed energy it is approximately exponential at intermediate times, while the tail has a power-like behaviour.

Review text

The authors construct a rather simplified model (they call it a caricature) for something resembling a crystal interacting with a radiation field. This model has two bands of continuous spectrum and the particles can pass from the upper to the lower band by emitting a photon, the coupling between states in the two bands being of Friedrichs type. By analytically continuing the resolvent under convenient regularity and analyticity conditions, they find that for sufficiently weak coupling it has a curve-type singularity in the lower half plane which is a deformation of the upper band spectral cut. They show that for a fixed energy the decay is approximately exponential at intermediate times while the tail has a power-like behaviour.

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