Decay process accelerated by tunneling in its very early stage

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 641021-641024

  Koide, T ^a   Toyama, F M ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TUNNELING; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY;

QUANTUM DECAY SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0036990753     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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