X-Nico

unusual facts about Excited state


Optoelectric nuclear battery

The electrons then excite the gases whose excimer line is selected for the conversion of the radioactivity into a surrounding photovoltaic layer such that a lightweight, low-pressure, high-efficiency battery can be realised.


Planetary nebula

Physicists showed in the 1920s that in gas at extremely low densities, electrons can populate excited metastable energy levels in atoms and ions which at higher densities are rapidly de-excited by collisions.


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Hot band

The population of the lower excited state is then given by the Boltzmann distribution.

Spectral line

The uncertainty principle relates the lifetime of an excited state (due to the spontaneous radiative decay or the Auger process) with the uncertainty of its energy.

Stimulated raman adiabatic passage

This process of transforming the population without populating the excited state is called the stimulated Raman adiabatic passage.

Zero-phonon line and phonon sideband

The shape of the zero-phonon line is Lorentzian with a width determined by the excited state lifetime T10 according to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.