Abstract
IT is well known that some years ago Smekal introduced the notion of ‘double quantum switches’ which are responsible for both coherent and incoherent scattering of light. These double switches consist in transition from a given state of the atom k to some ‘intermediate’ state n, and back either to k or else some other state l, the result being the emission of light quantum h(v - vlk) instead of the absorbed hv. This theory has since been justified by the new mechanics. Now it seems to me that its implications have not been fully realised, and it is my purpose to apply them to the problem of absorption of light by the conversion of light energy into heat.
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