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Effective Hamiltonians for Complexes of Unstable Particles

Quantum Physics 2014-09-11 v1 Other Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Effective Hamiltonians governing the time evolution in a subspace of unstable states can be found using more or less accurate approximations. A convenient tool for deriving them is the evolution equation for a subspace of state space sometime called the Krolikowski-Rzewuski (KR) equation. KR equation results from the Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the total system under considerations. We will discuss properties of approximate effective Hamiltonians derived using KR equation for nn--particle, two particle and for one particle subspaces. In a general case these affective Hamiltonians depend on time tt. We show that at times much longer than times at which the exponential decay take place the real part of the exact effective Hamiltonian for the one particle subsystem (that is the instantaneous energy) tends to the minimal energy of the total system when tt \rightarrow \infty whereas the imaginary part of this effective Hamiltonian tends to the zero as tt\rightarrow \infty.

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@article{arxiv.1408.2211,
  title  = {Effective Hamiltonians for Complexes of Unstable Particles},
  author = {K. Urbanowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2211},
  year   = {2014}
}

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12 pages, 2 figures

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