Timeline for In Rayleigh scattering, does a light wave cause the electrons (themselves), in a particle, to move at the same frequency as the incoming light?
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| Feb 24, 2016 at 7:31 | comment | added | adam3033 | so, with Rayleigh, the electron does oscillate through all the orbitals at a classical vibration despite the wave function being static? And this oscillation is different from how the electron is normally "viewed" when in one particular orbital (i.e. non-classical)? | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 20:45 | comment | added | garyp | @adam3033 Yes, that's right. Related, but not the same. Maybe the simplest way to think about it: imagine an atom in a DC field electric field. The electron wave function will be a static combination of all orbitals, and the result will not be spherically symmetric. Now allow that DC field to oscillate... | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 11:57 | comment | added | adam3033 | ^^continuing.. something technically different than electronic transitions? | |
| Feb 23, 2016 at 11:52 | comment | added | adam3033 | I wanted to resend my comment in case you'd missed it. I just needed some clarification. The process for Rayleigh, the electron(s) being in a superposition of all the orbitals, is not referring to electron(s) jumping levels? | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 15:33 | comment | added | garyp | @adam3033 Yes, any and all, although the contribution from inner-orbital electrons will be smaller. | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 15:12 | comment | added | adam3033 | that helps make tremendous sense out of this issue. So that would go for any or all electrons within an atom... | |
| Feb 22, 2016 at 14:56 | history | answered | garyp | CC BY-SA 3.0 |