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Interferences between En and Mn (n = 1, 2...) optical transition moments

Chemical Physics 2019-05-01 v1

Abstract

The operator for interaction between monochromatic electromagnetic field (light) and molecules is usually presented as a two multipolar series % truncated expansions VE1+VE2+...V^{E1}+V^{E2}+... (electro-dipole, electro-quadrupole,...) and VM1+VM2+...V^{M1}+V^{M2}+... (magneto-dipole, magneto-quadrupole, ...). The optical transition probability is proportional to the complex square of the sum of these series, which contains interference terms like VEnVEnV^{En}V^{En'}, VMnVMnV^{Mn}V^{Mn'}, and VEpVMkV^{Ep}V^{Mk} (nnn\ne n'). In the present study it is shown that all of terms VEpVMkV^{Ep}V^{Mk} may be observed experimentally, if the the molecules are oriented, electrically and magnetically, and the light with appropriate phase shift between electric and magnetic fields. Also, a simple operator for the light-molecule interactions is proposed, as an alternative to Taylor series mentioned above.

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@article{arxiv.1812.10270,
  title  = {Interferences between En and Mn (n = 1, 2...) optical transition moments},
  author = {A. I. Chichinin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.10270},
  year   = {2019}
}

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