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Fermi’s Golden Rule is also referred to as the Golden Rule of time-dependent perturbation theory, which provides a way to evaluate the transition rate between two certain quantum-mechanically defined states (namely, initial state and final state). The transition rate depends on the strength of the coupling between the two states of the system as well as on the number of ways that the transition can happen (i.e., the density of the final states). In many physical situations the transition probability is given by,

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where,
          ρ -- The density of the final states (e.g. the number of states per unit of energy)
          H'(t) -- The time-dependent perturbation, e.g. corresponding to the interaction of the electron plane wave with an atom in EMs
          <f|H'(t)|i> -- The matrix element of the perturbation H'(t) between the final and initial states.