Quantum transitions that are not allowed in the most direct mechanism
In spectroscopy, a forbidden mechanism (forbidden transition or forbidden line) is a spectral line associated with absorption or emission of photons by atomic nuclei, atoms, or molecules which undergo a transition that is not allowed by a particular selection rule but is allowed if the approximation associated with that rule is not made.[1] For example, in a situation where, according to usual approximations (such as the electric dipole approximation for the interaction with light), the process cannot happen, but at a higher level of approximation (e.g. magnetic dipole, or electric quadrupole) the process is allowed but at a low rate.
An example is phosphorescent glow-in-the-dark materials,[2] which absorb light and form an excited state whose decay involves a spin flip, and is therefore forbidden by electric dipole transitions. The result is emission of light slowly over minutes or hours.
Should an atomic nucleus, atom or molecule be raised to an excited state and should the transitions be nominally forbidden, then there is still a small probability of their spontaneous occurrence. More precisely, there is a certain probability that such an excited entity will make a forbidden transition to a lower energy state per unit time; by definition, this probability is much lower than that for any transition permitted or allowed by the selection rules. Therefore, if a state can de-excite via a permitted transition (or otherwise, e.g. via collisions) it will almost certainly do so before any transition occurs via a forbidden route. Nevertheless, most forbidden transitions are only relatively unlikely: states that can only decay in this way (so-called meta-stable states) usually have lifetimes on the order milliseconds to seconds, compared to less than a microsecond for decay via permitted transitions. In some radioactive decay systems, multiple levels of forbiddenness can stretch life times by many orders of magnitude for each additional unit by which the system changes beyond what is most allowed under the selection rules.[citation needed] Such excited states can last years, or even for many billions of years (too long to have been measured).
^Philip R. Bunker; Per Jensen (2006). Molecular Symmetry and Spectroscopy. NRC Research Press. p. 414. ISBN 978-0-660-19628-2.
^Lisensky, George C.; Patel, Manish N.; Reich, Megan L. (1996). "Experiments with Glow-in-the-Dark Toys: Kinetics of Doped ZnS Phosphorescence". Journal of Chemical Education. 73 (11): 1048. Bibcode:1996JChEd..73.1048L. doi:10.1021/ed073p1048. ISSN 0021-9584.
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