Comment on SPIN-DEPENDENT SELECTION RULES FOR DIPOLE TRANSITIONS
A.S. Shumovsky
Despite the fact that properties of atomic transitions are well known since the early days of quantum mechanics, the theoretical analysis of peculiarities of the spectroscopic data still attracts a great deal of interest (e.g., see recent monograph [1]). It is well known that some nanostructures like quantum dots and quantum wells behave like twoor multi-level atoms. For example, an exciton-polariton confined in a quantum well represents an ideal two-level atom, manifesting a number of specific phenomena such as collaps and revival of Rabi oscillations [2, 3, 4]. Similar effects can also be observed in quantum dots [5, 6]. Let us stress that those “artificial atoms” are considered nowadays in the context of design of a hardware for realization of quantum computing. It has been observed that the dipole transitions in excitons and some nanostructures can manifest spin-flip effects [7, 8]. In the article by M. Saglam et al, it is shown that even the conventional Dirac model of hydrogen atom surprisingly allows spin-flip effects. The corresponding rate seems to be quite high (more than 50%).
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