Dynamics of a multilevel Wigner-Weisskopf atom
- 1 December 1974
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 15 (12) , 2036-2041
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1666578
Abstract
We study the dynamics of an atom with a finite number of discrete energy levels weakly coupled to a continuum of energy levels, showing that any bound state undergoes a decay into the continuum which, in the limit as the coupling constant goes to zero, becomes rigorously exponential.Keywords
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