Relation between the Lifetime of the Excited State and the Energy of Excitation

M. Bauer, Pier A. Mello

A new formulation of the uncertainty relation of position and momentum, and of energy and time, is presented. The connection between the lifetime of excited states and the energy width of these states, which does not follow from the usual uncertainty relation, is shown to be a consequence of the expression here derived.

R. W. P. McWhirter

M. Bauer, Pier A. Mello

A new formulation of the uncertainty rela- tion of position and momentum, and of energy and time, is presented. The connection between the lifetime of excited states and the energy width of these states, which does not follow from the usual uncertainty relation, is shown to be a consequence of the expression here derived.

Kiril B. Blagoev, Ya. F. Verolainen, V. N. Gorshkov +1 more

Pavel Bogdanovich, G. L. Zhukauskas, Alina Momkauskaitė

S. A. Pyroha

This paper proposes a fundamentally new approach to the study of stationary states in atoms, which is based on the analysis of the energy of electric and magnetic fields. The circulation of the electromagnetic field in the stationary states of the atom was discovered and the mechanism of optical transitions due to the continuous change of the circulating energy was clarified. The difference between circulating energy flows in the initial and final states is emitted (or absorbed) in the form of a quantum of light. A universal relation for determining the lifetime of excited states is proposed.