Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to Part 1
- Preface to Part 2
- Preface to the combined volume
- 1 General introduction – author to reader
- PART 1 THE SIMPLE CLASSICAL VIBRATOR
- PART 2 THE SIMPLE VIBRATOR IN QUANTUM MECHANICS
- 13 The quantized harmonic vibrator and its classical features
- 14 Anharmonic vibrators
- 15 Vibrations and cyclotron orbits in two dimensions
- 16 Dissipation, level broadening and radiation
- 17 The equivalent classical oscillator
- 18 The two-level system
- 19 Line broadening
- 20 The ammonia maser
- 21 The family of masers: from laser to travelling-wave oscillator
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
18 - The two-level system
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to Part 1
- Preface to Part 2
- Preface to the combined volume
- 1 General introduction – author to reader
- PART 1 THE SIMPLE CLASSICAL VIBRATOR
- PART 2 THE SIMPLE VIBRATOR IN QUANTUM MECHANICS
- 13 The quantized harmonic vibrator and its classical features
- 14 Anharmonic vibrators
- 15 Vibrations and cyclotron orbits in two dimensions
- 16 Dissipation, level broadening and radiation
- 17 The equivalent classical oscillator
- 18 The two-level system
- 19 Line broadening
- 20 The ammonia maser
- 21 The family of masers: from laser to travelling-wave oscillator
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
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- The Physics of Vibration , pp. 516 - 549Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989