Spontaneous emission — UPSC Physics Optional CSE 2005 Paper II

(i) Explain the molecular phenomenon of spontaneous emission between two electronic states of the same multiplicity and differentiate it form that of different multiplicity. (ii) The constants B and V_0 for a KCl molecule have values 1 \cdot 43 \times 10^{-5} \text{ eV} 8 \cdot 4 \times 10^{12} \text{ s}^{-1} respectively. Determine the number of rotational levels between the vibrational levels v = 0 and v = 1.