We discuss the transitions that an external time-dependent perturbation can induce upon a quantum harmonic oscillator in an excited initial state. In particular, we show how to describe transitions of the oscillator from initial states characterized by statistical distributions. These results should be useful for interpretations of the properties of weakly dispersive bosonic excitations in quantum systems whose dynamics is investigated by time or energy resolved spectroscopies.
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