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Pressure Broadening as a Prototype of Relaxation

Fano, U.·1963·Physical Review
DOI 10.1103/physrev.131.259
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The theoretical results of Baranger, Kolb, and Griem on pressure broadening are rederived by a more compact and flexible procedure directly applicable to other relaxation processes. Pressure broadening is worked out to first order in the pressure, including previously disregarded corrections. The procedure adapts the concepts and techniques of scattering theory to the Liouville representation of density matrices. Its key quantity is a frequency-dependent relaxation operator $〈{M}_{c}(\ensuremath{\omega})〉$ introduced by Zwanzig.

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  • Techniques for solving equations of motion for vectors in state space can be applied in Liouville space.

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Authors
Fano, U.
Affiliations
National Institute of Standards and Technology (US)
Corresponding author
Fano, U.
Venue
Physical Review
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Published
1963-07-01
Volume
131
Issue
1
Pages
259-268
ISSN
0031-899X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1103/physrev.131.259
OpenAlex
W2062758204
Cited by
725
References
14
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 44 · 2019: 7 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 10
FWCI
5.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
link.aps.org/licenses/aps-default-license (vor)
Locations
Physical Review (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Atomic and Molecular Physics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum optics and atomic interactions
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Keywords
pressure broadening, relaxation processes, scattering theory, density matrix

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