Quantum relaxation of multilevel particles

P.L. Chapovsky

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1996, vol. 233, issue 1, 441-448

Abstract: A non-perturbative model of the relaxation of a multilevel particle between collisionally isolated Hilbert subspaces has been developed using the density matrix formalism. The relaxation between these subspaces can be induced by internal state mixing. Under appropriate conditions a particle can be confined inside one subspace even in the case of strong state mixing. The particular case of nuclear spin conversion in CH3F molecules is proposed as a simple and convenient system to study experimentally this type of relaxation for a wide range of parameters.

Keywords: Spin relaxation; State mixing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(96)00294-4

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