I know Fermi's Golden Rule in the form
Γfi = ∑f2πℏδ(Ef−Ei)|Mfi|2
where Γfi is the probability transition rate, Mfi are the transition matrix elements.
I'm struggling to do a derivation based on the density of states. I know that under certain circumstances it's a good approximation to replace ∑f with ∫Fρ(Ef)dEf to calculate the transition probability, for some energy range F.
Doing this calculation I obtain
Γfi = ∫ρ(Ef)2πℏδ(Ef−Ei)|Mfi|2dEf.
Now assuming that the Mfi are constant in the energy range under the integral we get
Γfi = ρ(Ei)2πℏ|Mfi|2.
Now this is absolutely not what is written anywhere else. Other sources pull the ρ(Ef) out of the integral to obtain Fermi's Golden Rule of the form
Γfi = ρ(Ef)2πℏ|Mfi|2
for any f with Ef in F which makes much more physical sense. But why is what I've done wrong? If anything it should be more precise, because I have actually done the integral! Where have I missed something?
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