Quantum theory of line formation in a magnetic field

✍ Scribed by Egidio Landi Degl'innocenti; Maurizio Landi Degl'innocenti

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1972
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 489 KB
• Volume: 27
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-0938
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00153104

✦ Synopsis

The transfer equations for the Stokes parameters in the presence of magnetic field and under the hypothesis of LTE are derived in an original way by the use of density matrix techniques.

The results are substantially the same as those previously obtained by other authors. We finally compare our results to the previous ones in order to clarify some discrepancies still present in the literature.

Solar Physics 27 (1972) 319-329. All Rights Reserved Copyright 9 1972 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht-Holland * The reason of our statements on page 322 is that the infinite terms of the form <ks, k', fl Q fka, i) would contribute to the right-hand side of ( 7) with a quantity proportional to 8(v' + v0) and those (finite in number) with k' =ks, 2 with quantities proportional to 8(v0 +v) and to P/(vo +v). * This definition is the same as the operational one given by Shurcliff (1962) except for a factor V'2 in U and V.