A TEMPORALLY QUANTIZED THEORY OF EMISSION AND ABSORPTION OF RADIATION

The temporally quantized theory constructed recently to account for pr esumed strictly-irreversible evolution of dynamically isolated and loc alized nonrelativistic quantum systems is used to describe the process es of emission, absorption and fluorescence of radiation when such sys tems interact with otherwise isolated quantized radiation-fields, A Qu asi-Two-State N-Level Radiative Model of systems, introduced in order to do so in precise nonperturbative terms, reveals the existence of Sp ectroscopically Equivalent Transitions. For these, initial transition- probability-rates and initial decay-rates derived for the processes de pend identically on the frequency of the radiation involved. They diff er from that derived for the initial damping-rates of their ensuing os cillatory behavior. The temporally asymptotic transition-probabilities derived for them differ even more. For intermediate lapses of time, t he modulation frequencies of the radiation emitted and/or absorbed and the decay-rate constants associated with their damping satisfy a univ ersal inverse-proportionality between them. The possible use of these expressions to test the theory is described.