Decay Theory of Closely Coupled Unstable States

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Abstract
A treatment of decay theory is presented which generalizes existing treatments so as to apply to closely coupled unstable states. The treatment is based upon a Green's function formulation for the transition amplitude in which the states of interest are selected by suitable projection operators. As an indication of the practicality of the resulting formulation a number of examples are given involving the stimulated transition between closely coupled unstable states.