On the decay law for unstable open systems

Preprint

2 April 1998

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9804015

Abstract

We use (nonconservative) dynamical semigroups to investigate the decay law of a quantum unstable system weakly coupled with a large environment. We find that the deviations from the classical exponential law are small and can be safely ignored in any actual experiment.

Keywords

CLASSICAL EXPONENTIAL
DYNAMICAL SEMIGROUPS
ACTUAL EXPERIMENT
LARGE ENVIRONMENT
QUANTUM UNSTABLE
UNSTABLE OPEN
OPEN SYSTEMS
DECAY LAW
LAW

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Published version: Physics Letters B, 428 (1-2), 149.

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