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Dear List--
Is there a physicist out there who can offer an intuitive explanation of
how 2-photon absorption occurs? I expect we all know that it isn't that
there isn't any half-excited state that allows one photon to boost an
electron half-way to the excited state, and the next photon to finish
the job. My sense is that it has to do with time-energy uncertainty (a
la Heisenberg) but my quantum mechanics is elementary-school level.
Thanks!
Martin Wessendorf
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