Tests for randomness of spontaneous quantum decay

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 421061-4210610

  Silverman, M P ^a   Strange, Wayne ^a   Silverman, Chris ^a   Lipscombe, T C ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

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