Perturbation of near threshold eigenvalues: Crossover from exponential to non-exponential decay laws

Reviews in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 83-125

  Dinu, Victor ^a   Jensen, Arne ^b   Nenciu, Gheorghe ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Decay laws; exponential decay; Fermi Golden Rule; non exponential decay

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952058978     PISSN: 0129055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0129055X11004230     Document Type: Article

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