1 00:00:00,630 --> 00:00:05,790 PROFESSOR: We have to set up a little better the geometry 2 00:00:05,790 --> 00:00:08,820 of the calculation. 3 00:00:08,820 --> 00:00:13,890 And for that we have to think of various angles. 4 00:00:13,890 --> 00:00:18,940 We oriented there the electric field along the z direction. 5 00:00:18,940 --> 00:00:24,940 But that's not going to be too convenient for our calculation. 6 00:00:24,940 --> 00:00:30,850 So these calculations are a bit of an art to do them. 7 00:00:30,850 --> 00:00:33,840 They're not that trivial. 8 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:38,100 Not terribly difficult. But I think if you appreciate it, 9 00:00:38,100 --> 00:00:41,580 next time you ever have to do one of these things 10 00:00:41,580 --> 00:00:43,990 it will become clear. 11 00:00:43,990 --> 00:00:48,300 So first your have to think physically. 12 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:54,300 Is there an angle in this problem? 13 00:00:54,300 --> 00:00:58,590 Is there any important angle happening here? 14 00:01:03,410 --> 00:01:04,620 It's a question to you. 15 00:01:07,710 --> 00:01:15,020 I think if you figure out that you have a chance of doing 16 00:01:15,020 --> 00:01:18,410 a diagram that reflects this. 17 00:01:18,410 --> 00:01:24,155 Is there a physical angle, you think, in this process? 18 00:01:24,155 --> 00:01:25,920 A relevant angle? 19 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:26,610 Yes, Lou? 20 00:01:26,610 --> 00:01:31,179 AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE] 21 00:01:31,179 --> 00:01:31,970 PROFESSOR: Perfect. 22 00:01:31,970 --> 00:01:33,230 Yeah. 23 00:01:33,230 --> 00:01:36,550 The relevant angle is you have a directional 24 00:01:36,550 --> 00:01:38,430 ready for the electric field. 25 00:01:38,430 --> 00:01:41,000 So if the electron comes off there's 26 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,520 going to be an angle with respect to that electric field. 27 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:47,270 So that's our physical angle in this question. 28 00:01:47,270 --> 00:01:52,670 So let's try to draw this in a way. 29 00:01:52,670 --> 00:01:55,250 So I will draw it this way. 30 00:01:58,202 --> 00:02:02,060 And I brought colored chalk for this. 31 00:02:02,060 --> 00:02:09,259 I'll put the z-axis here, and I'll put the electron momentum 32 00:02:09,259 --> 00:02:10,340 in this direction. 33 00:02:12,860 --> 00:02:15,150 k is the lateral momentum. 34 00:02:15,150 --> 00:02:18,630 Now the electric field is going to come 35 00:02:18,630 --> 00:02:21,840 at some angle with respect to the-- 36 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,140 or the electron momentum is at some angle with respect 37 00:02:25,140 --> 00:02:26,200 to the electric field. 38 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:29,370 So that angle will presumably stay there 39 00:02:29,370 --> 00:02:31,900 for the rest of the calculation. 40 00:02:31,900 --> 00:02:36,100 So let's do it with green. 41 00:02:36,100 --> 00:02:40,910 So here is my electric field. 42 00:02:40,910 --> 00:02:45,570 And it's going to have an angle theta with respect 43 00:02:45,570 --> 00:02:52,830 to the direction of the electric field or the photon incident 44 00:02:52,830 --> 00:02:53,460 direction. 45 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:03,500 Now, this is actually more like the polarization of the photon. 46 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:09,470 The electric field is the direction of the polarization 47 00:03:09,470 --> 00:03:10,320 of the photon. 48 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:17,230 So one more vector, however, the position that we 49 00:03:17,230 --> 00:03:19,280 have to integrate over-- 50 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:23,450 because we have the whole hydrogen atom and the whole 51 00:03:23,450 --> 00:03:25,010 of space to integrate. 52 00:03:25,010 --> 00:03:26,940 So x has a position. 53 00:03:26,940 --> 00:03:29,940 So I'll use another color here. 54 00:03:29,940 --> 00:03:33,060 Unfortunately, the colors are not that different. 55 00:03:33,060 --> 00:03:36,140 Here is r, the vector r. 56 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:44,140 So now I have several angles. 57 00:03:44,140 --> 00:03:47,710 I have theta for the electric field. 58 00:03:47,710 --> 00:03:55,040 But now that I've put all this axis I not only have theta, 59 00:03:55,040 --> 00:04:00,080 but I also have phi for the electric field. 60 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:14,010 And for r, I will have theta prime and phi prime. 61 00:04:16,750 --> 00:04:23,160 So r has a theta prime and a phi prime. 62 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,300 We usually have theta and phi. 63 00:04:25,300 --> 00:04:27,960 But the answers, at the end of the day, 64 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:29,465 are going to depend on theta. 65 00:04:33,634 --> 00:04:38,550 And if you have theta here, we want the theta to remain. 66 00:04:38,550 --> 00:04:41,210 So theta prime and phi prime are going 67 00:04:41,210 --> 00:04:43,650 to be our variables of integration 68 00:04:43,650 --> 00:04:46,860 because you integrate over r. 69 00:04:46,860 --> 00:04:50,370 Finally, we have one more angle that we have to define. 70 00:04:50,370 --> 00:04:55,380 So we have theta phi, theta prime, phi prime, 71 00:04:55,380 --> 00:04:57,480 and the angle that was here-- 72 00:05:01,950 --> 00:05:06,330 this was the angle between r and the direction 73 00:05:06,330 --> 00:05:07,600 of the electric field. 74 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,600 And we called it theta. 75 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,480 So we have to give it a new name here. 76 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:19,720 And this angle, I'll call it gamma here. 77 00:05:24,770 --> 00:05:26,600 The angle between E and r. 78 00:05:29,157 --> 00:05:29,656 OK. 79 00:05:29,656 --> 00:05:37,060 So We have everything defined here. 80 00:05:37,060 --> 00:05:39,280 Maybe I should list it. 81 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:47,070 E has angles theta and phi, the direction of E. r 82 00:05:47,070 --> 00:05:52,840 has angles theta prime and phi prime. 83 00:05:52,840 --> 00:06:00,460 And gamma is the angle between E and r. 84 00:06:00,460 --> 00:06:07,670 And k along z hat. 85 00:06:07,670 --> 00:06:10,780 So this is our situation. 86 00:06:19,660 --> 00:06:22,030 So what are we trying to calculate? 87 00:06:22,030 --> 00:06:24,820 Well, we want to use Fermi's golden rule. 88 00:06:24,820 --> 00:06:35,770 So we need to calculate final H prime initial. 89 00:06:35,770 --> 00:06:40,560 That's the matrix element of the Hamiltonian H 90 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:43,510 prime between the final and initial states. 91 00:06:47,300 --> 00:06:49,490 So what is this? 92 00:06:49,490 --> 00:06:51,560 Well, these are all wave functions 93 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:55,990 that depend all over space, and this is a function of space. 94 00:06:55,990 --> 00:06:56,900 So let's do it. 95 00:06:56,900 --> 00:07:02,330 This is integral d cubed x. 96 00:07:02,330 --> 00:07:06,280 Let's put the final state first because it shows up there. 97 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:13,460 So it's 1 over L cubed e to the minus i k dot r. 98 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:21,970 So here is our final state, u final. 99 00:07:21,970 --> 00:07:23,795 Then the Hamiltonian. 100 00:07:23,795 --> 00:07:25,010 That's simple. 101 00:07:25,010 --> 00:07:29,785 e E0 r cosine what? 102 00:07:33,190 --> 00:07:36,520 Cosine gamma. 103 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:38,420 Is that right? 104 00:07:38,420 --> 00:07:40,670 This is what we had there. 105 00:07:40,670 --> 00:07:47,150 It's the angle between the electric field and r. 106 00:07:47,150 --> 00:07:50,075 It was theta to begin but now has become gamma. 107 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,130 And then the final state. 108 00:07:55,130 --> 00:08:00,040 So this is our H prime. 109 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:07,030 And then the initial state is 1 over pi a0 cubed 110 00:08:07,030 --> 00:08:11,430 e to the minus r over a0. 111 00:08:11,430 --> 00:08:12,370 OK. 112 00:08:12,370 --> 00:08:15,220 This is our task. 113 00:08:15,220 --> 00:08:18,220 This is a matrix, and here it is. 114 00:08:18,220 --> 00:08:22,810 An integral of a plane wave against an electron wave 115 00:08:22,810 --> 00:08:26,500 function and an extra r dependence here. 116 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:33,114 This could range from undoable to difficult, basically. 117 00:08:33,114 --> 00:08:37,210 And happily, it's just a little difficult. 118 00:08:37,210 --> 00:08:39,220 But this is an integral-- 119 00:08:39,220 --> 00:08:42,470 we'll see what are the challenges on this integral. 120 00:08:42,470 --> 00:08:46,060 So let's take a few constants out. 121 00:08:46,060 --> 00:08:54,050 So e, E0, pi, a0, that all will go out. 122 00:08:54,050 --> 00:09:03,760 So this is e E0 over square root of pi l cubed a0 cubed. 123 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:10,390 So I took the l's out, the e, E, this thing. 124 00:09:10,390 --> 00:09:11,040 All right. 125 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:18,590 Let's write the integral more explicitly. 126 00:09:18,590 --> 00:09:26,240 This is r squared dr sine the volume element. 127 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:31,250 Sine theta d theta d phi. 128 00:09:31,250 --> 00:09:36,350 But I'm integrating over x, which is integrating over r. 129 00:09:36,350 --> 00:09:39,240 And r is theta prime and phi prime. 130 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:44,400 So these are all these ones. 131 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:48,030 I'm integrating over all values of theta prime and phi prime. 132 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:52,750 Then what do I have? 133 00:09:52,750 --> 00:09:57,240 I have this exponent, k dot r. 134 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:01,675 Well, my diagram shows how k dot r is easy. 135 00:10:01,675 --> 00:10:05,410 It involves a cosine of theta prime. 136 00:10:05,410 --> 00:10:12,780 So it's e to the minus ik, the magnitude of k, 137 00:10:12,780 --> 00:10:16,590 the magnitude of r cosine theta prime, 138 00:10:16,590 --> 00:10:19,860 because after all, k was along the z-axis. 139 00:10:19,860 --> 00:10:24,498 r is along the phi theta prime direction. 140 00:10:27,780 --> 00:10:28,320 OK. 141 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:30,020 We're progressing. 142 00:10:30,020 --> 00:10:36,630 This, this, that term, it's r cosine gamma. 143 00:10:39,190 --> 00:10:44,470 And the final term is not that difficult. e to the minus r 144 00:10:44,470 --> 00:10:47,080 over a0. 145 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:48,370 That's what we have to do. 146 00:10:48,370 --> 00:10:52,810 An integral over phi prime, theta prime, and r. 147 00:10:56,070 --> 00:10:57,440 This is our challenge. 148 00:10:59,950 --> 00:11:06,740 And the reason it's a challenge is the cosine gamma 149 00:11:06,740 --> 00:11:09,650 because this gamma is the angle. 150 00:11:09,650 --> 00:11:13,880 It depends on theta, depends on theta prime, depends on phi, 151 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,280 phi prime. 152 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:18,350 That's the problem. 153 00:11:18,350 --> 00:11:21,950 If we can solve that cosine gamma thing 154 00:11:21,950 --> 00:11:24,140 we can do this integral. 155 00:11:24,140 --> 00:11:27,200 And I think even if you were doing it numerically, 156 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:32,130 that cosine gamma there is a little bit of a headache. 157 00:11:32,130 --> 00:11:34,460 You don't want to do an integral that you can really 158 00:11:34,460 --> 00:11:36,590 do like this numerically. 159 00:11:36,590 --> 00:11:38,910 So you really want to do it. 160 00:11:38,910 --> 00:11:40,820 So what we need is to calculate. 161 00:11:40,820 --> 00:11:43,700 So we can begin by saying, I'm going 162 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:46,640 to calculate what cosine gamma is. 163 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:55,420 And here is the way you can calculate cosine gamma. 164 00:11:55,420 --> 00:11:59,560 When you have two unit vectors, cosine 165 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:02,110 of the angle between two unit vectors 166 00:12:02,110 --> 00:12:06,550 is just the dot product of those two unit vectors. 167 00:12:06,550 --> 00:12:12,060 So for gamma, we can consider a unit vector along e 168 00:12:12,060 --> 00:12:18,730 and a unit vector along r and take the dot product. 169 00:12:18,730 --> 00:12:23,460 And remember, for an arbitrary unit vector, 170 00:12:23,460 --> 00:12:36,420 it's sine theta cos phi sine theta sine phi cos theta. 171 00:12:36,420 --> 00:12:39,030 This is the theta phi decomposition 172 00:12:39,030 --> 00:12:41,620 of an arbitrary unit vector. 173 00:12:41,620 --> 00:12:49,590 So cosine gamma is the dot product 174 00:12:49,590 --> 00:12:59,680 of a vector n along the e times a vector n along r. 175 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:03,460 And vector n along e and r are just 176 00:13:03,460 --> 00:13:08,810 with theta in one case and phi and theta prime and phi prime. 177 00:13:08,810 --> 00:13:11,710 So when I make the dot product, I 178 00:13:11,710 --> 00:13:23,980 get sine theta, cos phi, sine theta prime, cos phi prime. 179 00:13:23,980 --> 00:13:28,150 That is the product of the x components. 180 00:13:28,150 --> 00:13:40,950 Plus sine theta, sine phi prime times sine theta and sine phi. 181 00:13:40,950 --> 00:13:48,790 Sine theta prime sine phi prime, plus cos theta, 182 00:13:48,790 --> 00:13:49,950 cos theta prime. 183 00:13:53,420 --> 00:13:53,920 OK. 184 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:57,490 Doesn't look much easier, but at least it's explicit. 185 00:13:57,490 --> 00:13:59,385 But it's actually much easier. 186 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:15,720 And why is that? 187 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:21,290 Because there's a lot of factors in common here. 188 00:14:24,550 --> 00:14:32,535 In fact, sine theta and sine theta prime are in both. 189 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:41,880 So what you get here is cosine gamma 190 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:48,540 is equal to sine theta sine theta prime. 191 00:14:48,540 --> 00:14:50,970 And then you have cos phi, cos phi 192 00:14:50,970 --> 00:14:54,570 prime, plus sine phi, sine phi prime. 193 00:14:54,570 --> 00:15:07,630 And that's cosine of phi minus phi prime plus cos theta cos 194 00:15:07,630 --> 00:15:08,290 theta prime. 195 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:13,100 OK. 196 00:15:13,100 --> 00:15:16,040 So that's cosine gamma. 197 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:21,350 Now suppose you were to put this whole thing in here. 198 00:15:21,350 --> 00:15:26,070 It's a big mess but all quantities that we know. 199 00:15:26,070 --> 00:15:28,520 But there's one nice thing, though-- 200 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,430 a very nice thing happening. 201 00:15:31,430 --> 00:15:34,145 Think of the interval over d phi prime. 202 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,560 This does not depend on phi prime. 203 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,410 This does not depend on phi prime. 204 00:15:44,410 --> 00:15:47,950 But cosine gamma can depend on phi prime. 205 00:15:47,950 --> 00:15:55,160 But here it has this thing, cosine of phi minus phi prime. 206 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:59,540 So when you try to do the integral of this phi prime 207 00:15:59,540 --> 00:16:03,650 with this term, this term will give, 208 00:16:03,650 --> 00:16:06,680 eventually, the integral of d phi prime times 209 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,370 cosine of phi minus phi prime. 210 00:16:10,370 --> 00:16:13,100 There is a lot of messy things. 211 00:16:13,100 --> 00:16:15,440 But this integral is 0 because you 212 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:19,040 are averaging over a full term. 213 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:28,260 So happily, all this term will not contribute. 214 00:16:28,260 --> 00:16:32,210 And that's what makes the integral doable. 215 00:16:32,210 --> 00:16:34,700 So what do we have then? 216 00:16:34,700 --> 00:16:42,290 Our whole matrix element, f H prime i, 217 00:16:42,290 --> 00:16:52,475 has become e E0 over square root of pi l cube a0 cube. 218 00:16:55,070 --> 00:16:59,000 And now you just have to integrate. 219 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,430 This is the only term that contributes. 220 00:17:10,630 --> 00:17:14,859 And when you put this term, for sure 221 00:17:14,859 --> 00:17:19,210 you can now do the d phi prime integral 222 00:17:19,210 --> 00:17:21,410 because that term is phi dependent. 223 00:17:21,410 --> 00:17:23,890 So that integral gives you just a factor 224 00:17:23,890 --> 00:17:32,210 of 2 pi from the integral of d phi. 225 00:17:32,210 --> 00:17:36,290 And from this thing, cosine theta 226 00:17:36,290 --> 00:17:39,830 is the angle between the electric field and k. 227 00:17:39,830 --> 00:17:42,140 So it's a constant for your integral. 228 00:17:42,140 --> 00:17:44,930 You're integrating over theta prime and phi prime. 229 00:17:44,930 --> 00:17:47,330 So cosine theta also goes out. 230 00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:52,530 And here is the integral that remains. 231 00:17:52,530 --> 00:17:58,020 r cube dr. It was r squared, but there was an extra r 232 00:17:58,020 --> 00:17:59,740 from the perturbation. 233 00:17:59,740 --> 00:18:06,690 r cubed dr into the minus a over r-- 234 00:18:06,690 --> 00:18:09,690 r over a0. 235 00:18:09,690 --> 00:18:17,170 And this thing you can pass two cosine variables. 236 00:18:17,170 --> 00:18:19,340 It's pretty useful. 237 00:18:19,340 --> 00:18:25,290 So this goes minus 1 to 1 d cos theta 238 00:18:25,290 --> 00:18:33,395 prime, cos theta prime e to the minus ikr cos theta prime. 239 00:18:36,950 --> 00:18:39,420 This cos theta prime came from here. 240 00:18:43,260 --> 00:18:47,010 And that's it. 241 00:18:47,010 --> 00:19:01,160 So this is a nice result. It looks still difficult, 242 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:03,180 but we've made great progress. 243 00:19:03,180 --> 00:19:06,800 And in fact, we've dealt with a really difficult part 244 00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,830 of this problem, which is orienting yourself 245 00:19:09,830 --> 00:19:13,110 of how you're going to approach the matrix element. 246 00:19:13,110 --> 00:19:18,470 So to finish up I'll just give you a little more 247 00:19:18,470 --> 00:19:19,100 of the answer. 248 00:19:19,100 --> 00:19:20,700 We'll complete the discussion. 249 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:25,550 We need probably 15 more minutes to finish it up. 250 00:19:25,550 --> 00:19:27,680 So the only thing I'm going to say now 251 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:31,700 is that if you look at the notes, 252 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:34,565 every integral here is easily doable. 253 00:19:38,090 --> 00:19:42,260 So basically, there's two integrals. 254 00:19:42,260 --> 00:19:48,350 And the way to do them is first do the r integral. 255 00:19:48,350 --> 00:19:51,560 You will have to have these terms. 256 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,780 And then do the theta integral. 257 00:19:53,780 --> 00:19:59,550 And they are kind of simple, both of them. 258 00:19:59,550 --> 00:20:03,200 You have to keep up a lot of constants. 259 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:06,930 But here is the answer for the matrix element. 260 00:20:06,930 --> 00:20:11,590 So that part of the integral I think you all can do. 261 00:20:11,590 --> 00:20:14,720 But you have to take your time. 262 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:23,210 i 32 square root of pi e E0 a0. 263 00:20:23,210 --> 00:20:25,180 I did a lot of work here, actually, 264 00:20:25,180 --> 00:20:29,720 in writing it in a comprehensible way 265 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,330 because it's pretty messy. 266 00:20:32,330 --> 00:20:40,850 l cube a0 cube, 1 over 1 plus k squared 267 00:20:40,850 --> 00:20:46,850 a0 squared cube cosine theta. 268 00:20:46,850 --> 00:20:49,115 By now, it starts to simplify a little. 269 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:54,160 OK. 270 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:59,690 That was actually plenty of work to get it to write it this way. 271 00:20:59,690 --> 00:21:03,220 I feel pretty happy about that writing. 272 00:21:03,220 --> 00:21:04,600 Why? 273 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,210 First, OK, there is these numbers. 274 00:21:07,210 --> 00:21:08,350 Nothing I can do about it. 275 00:21:08,350 --> 00:21:10,510 But there's a multitude of constants 276 00:21:10,510 --> 00:21:13,520 that I have simplified and done all kinds of things. 277 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:14,530 But it was not worth it. 278 00:21:14,530 --> 00:21:20,470 First, ka0, that is unit free. 279 00:21:20,470 --> 00:21:22,240 This is unit free. 280 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:24,490 This is unit free. 281 00:21:24,490 --> 00:21:27,400 k is 1 over length. 282 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:32,110 ka0 to the 4 is the length cube, and here is the length cube. 283 00:21:32,110 --> 00:21:34,990 No units here either. 284 00:21:34,990 --> 00:21:38,840 Here, nice units. 285 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,810 This is units of energy. 286 00:21:40,810 --> 00:21:41,840 Why? 287 00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:44,930 Electric field times distance is potential, 288 00:21:44,930 --> 00:21:49,660 times electric charge is energy. 289 00:21:49,660 --> 00:21:51,260 Energy. 290 00:21:51,260 --> 00:21:53,630 So this is how this should be. 291 00:21:53,630 --> 00:21:59,180 The matrix element of an energy between normalizable states 292 00:21:59,180 --> 00:22:00,380 should be an energy. 293 00:22:00,380 --> 00:22:03,270 And that has become clear here. 294 00:22:03,270 --> 00:22:06,620 The next steps that we have to do, which we'll do next time, 295 00:22:06,620 --> 00:22:12,120 is to integrate over states, and put in the density of states, 296 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:13,550 and do a little simplification. 297 00:22:13,550 --> 00:22:15,350 But now it's all trivial. 298 00:22:15,350 --> 00:22:17,480 We don't really have to integrate anymore 299 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,640 because Fermi's golden rule did the job for us.