Franck-Condon vibronic-overlap framework (Franck 1926 Trans Faraday Soc 21, 536; Condon 1926 Phys Rev 27, 640; 1928 Phys Rev 32, 858). Setup: in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, electronic transition amplitude between vibrational levels…
Franck-Condon factor |<v'|v>|^2 = S^v exp(-S)/v! (Poisson); L^2 completeness
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