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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.

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@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}
}

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12 pages, plain-TeX, to appear in Phys. Lett. B

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