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Stimulated radiative transitions of an electron in an image potential

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Wave functions describing the state of an electron in the image potential field near the surface of a metal are obtained. General relationships for the stimulated absorption probabilities are derived in the first order of perturbation theory in the interaction of the electron with an electromagnetic wave in the dipole approximation. The probabilities of bound-bound and bound-free transitions are expressed in terms of elementary functions. Calculated matrix elements for a number of transitions are presented and the asymptotic behavior of probabilities is examined.

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Original Russian Text © P.A. Golovinskii, M.A. Preobrazhenskii, 2015, published in Optika i Spektroskopiya, 2015, Vol. 118, No. 2, pp. 203–210.

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Golovinskii, P.A., Preobrazhenskii, M.A. Stimulated radiative transitions of an electron in an image potential. Opt. Spectrosc. 118, 191–198 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X1502006X

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