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    1) The document discusses the relationship between the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of a spectral line profile and the lifetime of an excited atomic state, where a shorter lifetime results in a broader line profile. 2) It notes that both classical damped harmonic oscillator theory and quantum perturbation theory can explain the exponential decay of radiation from an emitting particle or atom. 3) The document then introduces the Dirac delta function and lists some of its key properties, including being zero everywhere except at zero, being infinite at zero, and integrating to one over its entire domain. It also notes the delta function violates one of Dirichlet's conditions for Fourier transforms.

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    1) The document discusses the relationship between the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of a spectral line profile and the lifetime of an excited atomic state, where a shorter lifetime results in a broader line profile. 2) It notes that both classical damped harmonic oscillator theory and quantum perturbation theory can explain the exponential decay of radiation from an emitting particle or atom. 3) The document then introduces the Dirac delta function and lists some of its key properties, including being zero everywhere except at zero, being infinite at zero, and integrating to one over its entire domain. It also notes the delta function violates one of Dirichlet's conditions for Fourier transforms.

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    1) The document discusses the relationship between the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of a spectral line profile and the lifetime of an excited atomic state, where a shorter lifetime results in a broader line profile. 2) It notes that both classical damped harmonic oscillator theory and quantum perturbation theory can explain the exponential decay of radiation from an emitting particle or atom. 3) The document then introduces the Dirac delta function and lists some of its key properties, including being zero everywhere except at zero, being infinite at zero, and integrating to one over its entire domain. It also notes the delta function violates one of Dirichlet's conditions for Fourier transforms.

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    7 Useful functions 15
    I (ν), the FWHM, ν is related to the ‘Lifetime of the Excited State’, the recip-
    rocal of the transition probability in the atom which undergoes the transition. In
    this example, a and x obviously have dimensions of time. Looked at classically,
    the emitting particle is behaving like a damped harmonic oscillator radiating
    power at an exponentially decreasing rate. Quantum mechanics yields the same
    equation through perturbation theory.
    There is more discussion of this profile in Chapter 5.

    1.7.5 The Dirac ‘delta-function’


    This has the following properties:
    δ(x) = 0 unless x = 0
    δ(0) = ∞
     ∞
    δ(x)d x = 1
    −∞

    It is an example of a function which disobeys one of Dirichlet’s conditions,

    Fig. 1.7. The exponential decay e−|x|/a and its Fourier transform.

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