AIP Advances (Nov 2015)

Quantized impedance dealing with the damping behavior of the one-dimensional oscillator

  • Jinghao Zhu,
  • Jing Zhang,
  • Yuan Li,
  • Yong Zhang,
  • Zhengji Fang,
  • Peide Zhao,
  • Erping Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4935786
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 11
pp. 117217 – 117217-12

Abstract

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A quantized impedance is proposed to theoretically establish the relationship between the atomic eigenfrequency and the intrinsic frequency of the one-dimensional oscillator in this paper. The classical oscillator is modified by the idea that the electron transition is treated as a charge-discharge process of a suggested capacitor with the capacitive energy equal to the energy level difference of the jumping electron. The quantized capacitance of the impedance interacting with the jumping electron can lead the resonant frequency of the oscillator to the same as the atomic eigenfrequency. The quantized resistance reflects that the damping coefficient of the oscillator is the mean collision frequency of the transition electron. In addition, the first and third order electric susceptibilities based on the oscillator are accordingly quantized. Our simulation of the hydrogen atom emission spectrum based on the proposed method agrees well with the experimental one. Our results exhibits that the one-dimensional oscillator with the quantized impedance may become useful in the estimations of the refractive index and one- or multi-photon absorption coefficients of some nonmagnetic media composed of hydrogen-like atoms.