Spontaneous Decay, Unitarity, and the Weisskopf-Wigner Approximation

Advances in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue C, 2010, Pages 175-221

  Berman, Paul R ^a   Ford, George W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 77955533369     PISSN: 1049250X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1049-250X(10)59005-0     Document Type: Book

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