Fermi's golden rule and exponential decay as a RG fixed point

DOI10.1007/S10955-009-9700-XMaRDI QIDQ1024233zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Edwin Langmann, Goeran Lindblad

Publication date 16 June 2009

Published in Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.0502

zbMATH Keywords

random matrixrenormalization groupFermi's golden ruleunstable statesFeshbach methodLorentz line shape

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Renormalization group methods in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B28)

Abstract: We discuss the decay of unstable states into a quasicontinuum using models of the effective Hamiltonian type. The goal is to show that exponential decay and the golden rule are exact in a suitable scaling limit, and that there is an associated renormalization group (RG) with these properties as a fixed point. The method is inspired by a limit theorem for infinitely divisible distributions in probability theory, where there is a RG with a Cauchy distribution, i.e. a Lorentz line shape, as a fixed point. Our method of solving for the spectrum is well known; it does not involve a perturbation expansion in the interaction, and needs no assumption of a weak interaction. We use random matrices for the interaction, and show that the ensemble fluctuations vanish in the scaling limit. Thus the limit is the same for every model in the ensemble with probability one.

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