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Title: Spectral line shape in the limit of frequent velocity-changing collisions

Abstract: The speed-dependent spectral line profiles collapse into a simple Lorentz profile in the regime dominated by the velocity-changing collisions. We derive general formulas for the effective width and shift of the Lorentzian for arbitrary speed-dependent collisional broadening and shift and velocity-changing collision operators. For a quadratic speed dependence of collisional broadening and shift, and the billiard ball model of velocity-changing collisions, we provide simple analytical expressions for the effective Lorentzian width and shift. We show that the effective Lorentzian width and shift split into components originating from the: well-known Dicke-narrowed Doppler width, speed-averaged collisional broadening and shift, their speed dependencies, and a product term that mixes the contributions of the broadening and shift speed dependencies. We show how the components depend on rates of speed-changing and velocity-changing collisions related to the perturber/absorber mass ratio. We validate analytical formulas numerically on example of H$_{2}$ transition perturbed by He.
Comments: 12 pages, 3 figures
Subjects: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD); Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph); Optics (physics.optics)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.108.032810
Cite as: arXiv:2305.11885 [cond-mat.stat-mech]
  (or arXiv:2305.11885v2 [cond-mat.stat-mech] for this version)

Submission history

From: Nikodem Stolarczyk [view email]
[v1] Wed, 10 May 2023 11:30:53 GMT (148kb,D)
[v2] Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:05:12 GMT (139kb,D)

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