On the decay law for unstable open systems
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We use (nonconservative) dynamical semigroups to investigate the decay law of a quantum unstable system weakly coupled with a large environment. We find that the deviations from the classical exponential law are small and can be safely ignored in any actual experiment.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9804015,
title = {On the decay law for unstable open systems},
author = {F. Benatti and R. Floreanini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9804015},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, plain-TeX, to appear in Phys. Lett. B