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Spontaneous emission

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Spontaneous emission by Ciro Santilli 37  Updated 2025-05-26  +Created 1970-01-01
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Do electrons spontaneously jump from high orbitals to lower ones emitting photons?
Explaining this was was one of the key initial achievements of the Dirac equation.
Yes, but this is not predicted by the Schrödinger equation, you need to go to the Dirac equation.
A critical application of this phenomena is laser.
See also:
  • physics.stackexchange.com/questions/233330/why-do-electrons-jump-between-orbitals
  • physics.stackexchange.com/questions/117417/quantum-mechanics-scattering-theory/522220#522220
  • physics.stackexchange.com/questions/430268/stimulated-emission-how-can-giving-energy-to-electrons-make-them-decay-to-a-low/430288
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