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Oscillating decay of an unstable system

I. Antoniou, E. Karpov, G. Pronko, E. Yarevsky

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0110047

Abstract

We study the short-time and medium-time behavior of the survival probability in the frame of the N-level Friedrichs model. The time evolution of an arbitrary unstable initial state is determined. We show that the survival probability may oscillate significantly during the so-called exponential era. This result explains qualitatively the experimental observations of the NaI decay.

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