Collision induced coherence in plasma and Branching Ratio in multilevel system

TL;DR

This paper investigates how collision-induced quantum coherence in plasma affects spontaneous emission suppression, demonstrating that increased electron density leads to a decreased branching ratio between visible and ultraviolet transitions.

Contribution

It introduces a theoretical framework linking collision-induced coherence to spontaneous emission suppression and quantifies this effect via the branching ratio in a multilevel plasma system.

Findings

Branching ratio decreases with increasing electron density.

Collision-induced dark states suppress visible transition emission.

Theoretical results align with preliminary calculations.

Abstract

Our work is based on the collision-induced coherence of two decay channels along two optical transitions.The quantum interference of pumping processes creates the dark state and the more atoms are pumped in this collision-induced dark state the stronger the suppression of the spontaneous emission. The efficiency of this suppression is quantified by putting it in comparison with the spontaneous emission on the ultraviolet transition which proceeds in a regular fashion. The branching ratio of these two(visible and ultraviolet) transitions is introduced as the effective measure of the degree of the suppression of the spontaneous emission on the visible transition. Our preliminary calculations show that a significant decrease of the branching ratio with increase of electron densities is reproduced in the theory.