Nonexponential decay of an unstable quantum system: Small-g-value s-wave decay

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Jittoh, Toshifumi ^a   Matsumoto, Shigeki ^b   Sato, Joe ^a   Sato, Yoshio ^a   Takeda, Koujin ^c  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN LAW; QUANTUM SYSTEMS; QUANTUM ZENO EFFECT (QZE); SPECTRAL FUNCTION;

BESSEL FUNCTIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON TUNNELING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 18444397747     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.012109     Document Type: Article

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