Integrate $I = \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}\exp\left\{-\gamma\, t + i\,( \omega_0-\omega)\,t\right\}\,\mathrm{dt}$

59 Views Asked by At

When deriving the line-shape for natural lifetime broadening this integral has to be solved.

Some sources give the answer as follows:

$$ I = -\left(\dfrac{1}{i\,(\omega_0-\omega)-\gamma}-\dfrac{1}{i\,(\omega_0+\omega)+\gamma}\right) $$

How do they get there? When I evaluate the Integral I only get:

$$ \dfrac{1}{i\,(\omega_0-\omega)-\gamma}\,\left[\exp\left\{-\gamma\, t + i\,( \omega_0-\omega)\,t\right\}\right]_{-\infty}^{+\infty} $$

Which somehow diverges ($\exp\{t\to\infty\}$). So where is my reasoning wrong?

1

There are 1 best solutions below

1
On BEST ANSWER

You overlooked two things:

Following your source, we have

$$E(t) = E_0 e^{-\gamma t} \left( e^{i \omega_0 t} + e^{-i\omega_0t}\right)\tag{1}$$

Note that I added the complex conjugated.

Then:

Excitation takes place at t = 0; observation follows for t > 0.

Meaning there's an implicit heaviside function $\theta(t)$ in $E(t$), so that $E(t)$ is $0$ for $t < 0$.

The general formula is given by

$$a(\omega) = \int \limits_{-\infty}^{\infty}E(t) e^{-iwt}\mathrm{d}t$$

Plugging in $E(t)$

$$a(\omega) = \int \limits_{-\infty}^{\infty} \theta(t) E_0 e^{-\gamma t} \left( e^{i (\omega_0-\omega) t} + e^{-i(\omega_0+\omega)t}\right) \mathrm{d}t$$

Exploiting the heaviside function, the integral boundaries become

$$a(\omega) = E_0 \int \limits_{0}^{\infty}\left( e^{[i (\omega_0-\omega)-\gamma] t} + e^{[-i(\omega_0+\omega)-\gamma]t}\right) \mathrm{d}t$$

$$=E_0 \left( \frac{1}{i (\omega_0-\omega)-\gamma} + \frac{1}{-i(\omega_0+\omega)-\gamma} \right)\left( e^{[i (\omega_0-\omega)-\gamma] t} + e^{[-i(\omega_0+\omega)-\gamma]t}\right) \Bigm|^\infty_0$$

The integral vanishes for $t\to \infty$, as you can easily convince yourself by writing the exponential function as a product or by looking at the graph of the amplitude. Thus, we only have to evaluate at $t=0$ where it is of course $1$.

$$=E_0 \left( \frac{1}{i (\omega_0-\omega)-\gamma} + \frac{1}{-i(\omega_0+\omega)-\gamma} \right) \cdot (0-1)$$

a bit of algebra

$$=-E_0 \left( \frac{1}{i (\omega_0-\omega)-\gamma} - \frac{1}{i(\omega_0+\omega)+\gamma} \right) \cdot$$

There you go.