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This paper is a pedagogical yet critical introduction to the quantum description of unstable systems, mostly at the level of a graduate quantum mechanics course. Quantum decays appear in many different fields of physics, and their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Charis Anastopoulos

We consider a nonlocal aggregation equation with degenerate diffusion, which describes the mean-field limit of interacting particles driven by nonlocal interactions and localized repulsion. When the interaction potential is attractive, it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Matias G. Delgadino , Xukai Yan , Yao Yao

This paper is concerned with a linearized version of the transport problem where the Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson operator is replaced by a non-autonomous Hamiltonian, slowly varying in time. We consider an explicitly solvable model where a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Faraj , A. Mantile , F. Nier

An analytical solution to the time evolution of decay of one and two identical noninteracting particles is presented using the formalism of resonant states. It is shown that the time-dependent wave function and hence the survival and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Gastón García-Calderón

We consider a slowly varying time dependent d-level atom interacting with a photon field. Restricted to the single excitation atom-field sector, the model is a time-dependent generalization of the Wigner-Weisskopf model describing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Alain Joye , Marco Merkli

In this paper we analyze the dynamics of single-excitation states, which model the scattering of a single photon from multiple two level atoms. For short times and weak atom-field couplings we show that the atomic amplitudes are given by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Jeremy Hoskins , Jason Kaye , Manas Rachh , John Schotland

We study the real-time evolution of a self-interacting O(N) scalar field initially prepared in a pure quantum state. We present a complete solution of the nonequilibrium quantum dynamics from a 1/N-expansion of the two-particle-irreducible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-11 Alexandre Giraud , Julien Serreau

Results of theoretical studies of the quantum unstable systems caused that there are rather widespread belief that a universal feature od the quantum decay process is the presence of three time regimes of the decay process: the early time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 K. Urbanowski

We discuss the possibility of non-exponential tunneling ionization of atoms irradiated by intense laser field. This effect can occur at times, which are greater than the lifetime of a system under consideration. The mechanism for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-03-02 A. M. Ishkhanyan , V. P. Krainov

We use a right unitary decomposition to study an ultracold two-level atom interacting with a quantum field. We show that such a right unitary approach simplifies the numerical evolution for arbitrary position-dependent atom-field couplings.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-02 F. Soto-Eguibar , A. Zúñiga-Segundo , B. M. Rodríguez-Lara , H. M. Moya-Cessa

A unitary model describing the electronic transitions in an atom subject to a strong high frequency laser pulse is proposed. The model fully accounts for the initial state coupling with the continuum spectrum. Continuum-continuum as well as…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 M. G. Bustamante , V. D. Rodríguez

We investigate the weak decay of uniformly {\em accelerated protons} in the context of {\em standard} Quantum Field Theory. Because the mean {\em proper} lifetime of a particle is a scalar, the same value for this observable must be…

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We examine the transition probability from the ground state to a final entangled state of a system of uniformly accelerated two-level atoms weakly coupled with a massless scalar field in Minkowski vacuum. Using time-dependent perturbation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-12 C. D. Rodríguez-Camargo , N. F. Svaiter , G. Menezes

We study the time evolution of the wave function of a particle bound by an attractive $\delta$-function potential when it is subjected to time dependent variations of the binding strength (parametric excitation). The simplicity of this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander Rokhlenko , Joel L. Lebowitz

We consider classical Minkowskian solutions to the field equation in the (1+1) dimensional scalar model with the exponential interaction that describe the unsuppressed false vacuum decay induced by $n$ initial particles. We find that there…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 V. A. Rubakov , D. T. Son

We present a detailed non-perturbative analysis of the time-evolution of a well-known quantum-mechanical system - a particle between potential walls - describing the decay of unstable states. For sufficiently high barriers, corresponding to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-14 U. G. Aglietti , P. M. Santini

We study the damped wave equation with a damping coefficient which is possibly singular and unbounded at infinity. In general, zero belongs to the spectrum of the corresponding generator, which prevents a uniform (exponential) decay for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Antonio Arnal , Borbala Gerhat , Julien Royer , Petr Siegl

Dynamical evolution of the quantum ground state (vacuum) is analyzed for time variant harmonic oscillators characterized by asymptotically constant frequency. The oscillatory density matrix in the asymptotic future is uniquely determined by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Yoshimura

We study a generalized Dicke model, as recently realized in an atomic quantum gas experiment, describing the collective interaction of N two-level atoms with a single cavity mode. The model takes account of dissipation of the cavity field,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 A L Grimsmo , A S Parkins