Decay of an unstable state
- 1 February 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 31 (2) , 888-891
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.31.888
Abstract
The first-passage-time problem associated with the decay of an unstable state is considered and analytic expressions for the first-passage-time distributions are derived. These expressions are quite general and are applicable to a large class of stochastic processes.Keywords
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