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- Title
Shape of Collision-Broadened Spectral Lines.
- Authors
FRÖHLICH, H.
- Abstract
Van Vleck and Weisskopf1, in an interesting paper, have shown that the well-known Lorentz formula for the shape of a spectral line is incorrect except at frequencies close to the resonance frequency. Since this formula has been considered to be correct for a great number of years, it may be of interest to record that, using a different method, I liad reached the same conclusions2 as Van Vleck and Weisskopf. This method, although originally developed for the case of a rigid dipole oscillating about an equilibrium position, can easily be adapted to harmonic oscillators.
- Publication
Nature, 1946, Vol 157, Issue 3989, p478
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/157478a0