Two-electron-one-photon transitions in polycenter systems

✍ Scribed by Alexander A. Berezin

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 250 KB
• Volume: 104
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2614
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2614(84)80200-6

✦ Synopsis

A system of four potential wells with two bound electrons is considered. For specific combinations of spatial locations and depths of the wells, the two-electron-one-photon transitions (TEOPTs) can provide the main channel for the spontaneous relaxation of the excited-state configuration into the ground-state level. This is distinctly different from the case of compact atomic systems where TEOPTs are several orders of magnitude weaker than two-electron-two-photon transitions.