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Ionisation by quantised electromagnetic fields: The photoelectric effect

Mathematical Physics 2008-11-26 v1 math.MP

Abstract

In this paper we explain the photoelectric effect in a variant of the standard model of non relativistic quantum electrodynamics, which is in some aspects more closely related to the physical picture, than the one studied in [BKZ]: Now we can apply our results to an electron with more than one bound state and to a larger class of electron-photon interactions. We will specify a situation, where ionisation probability in second order is a weighted sum of single photon terms. Furthermore we will see, that Einstein's equality Ekin=hνE>0E_{kin}=h\nu-\bigtriangleup E>0 for the maximal kinetic energy EkinE_{kin} of the electron, energy hνh\nu of the photon and ionisation gap E\bigtriangleup E is the crucial condition for these single photon terms to be nonzero.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0610023,
  title  = {Ionisation by quantised electromagnetic fields: The photoelectric effect},
  author = {Heribert Zenk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0610023},
  year   = {2008}
}

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