Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada
Abstract
The semiclassical Kepler–Coulomb problem and the quantum-mechanical Schrödinger–Coulomb problem were compared for their predictions of quadrupole E2 transitions. The semiclassical treatment involved an extension of a previous work for electric dipole transitions (Horbatsch et al. Phys. Rev. A, 71, 020501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.020501), and rates were derived for Δ ℓ = 0, ±2 transitions on the basis of the multipolar properties of the emitted radiation. For the quantum case, a derivation was presented within the Schrödinger framework without reference to spin. Comparison of the E2 rates showed reasonable agreement, but not as good as was found for the electric dipole case.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy