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One-photon rare earth optical transitions: recent theoretical developments

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‘The puzzle of rare earth spectra in solids’, a term first coined by van Vleck [1], was solved 30 years ago by Judd [2] and Ofelt [3]. The rich variety of sharp optical absorption and emission lines characteristic of 4fN→4fN lanthanide transitions are parity forbidden in the free ions. However, in the quantitative Judd-Ofelt theory, observation of these transitions is explained through simple configuration mixing caused by a noncentrosymmetric crystal field, allowing opposite-parity excited configurations to become slightly mixed into 4fN.

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Burdick, G.W., Downer, M.C. (1993). One-photon rare earth optical transitions: recent theoretical developments. In: Kitai, A.H. (eds) Solid State Luminescence. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1522-3_4

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