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The intensities in a discrete spectrum will often vary in an irregular manner, particularly so at higher levels of excitation. It was recently shown possible to discuss these variations as fluctuations with respect to a smooth spectral envelope. Here this conclusion is derived starting with the thermodynamic theory of fluctuations. The small number of degrees of freedom does however lead to a non-Gaussian distribution of fluctuations.
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Levine, R.D. (1987). Spectral Fluctuations in Finite Systems. In: Jortner, J., Pullman, A., Pullman, B. (eds) Large Finite Systems. The Jerusalem Symposia on Quantum Chemistry and Biochemistry, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4001-7_5
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