Unstable states in a model of nonrelativistic quantum electrodynamics: corrections to the Lorentzian distribution

DOI10.1007/S10955-021-02706-4zbMATH Open1457.81128arXiv1910.09332OpenAlexW3124848677MaRDI QIDQ2227189FDOQ2227189

Authors: Walter F. Wreszinski 

Publication date: 10 February 2021

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

Abstract: We review the Lee-Friedrichs model as a model of atomic resonances in the hydrogen atom, using the dipole-moment matrix-element functions which have been exactly computed by Nussenzveig. The Hamiltonian $H$ of the model is positive and has absolutely continuous spectrum. Although the return probability amplitude $$ of the initial state $Psi$, taken as the so-called Weisskopf-Wigner (W.W.) state, cannot be computed exactly, we show that it equals the sum of an exponentially decaying term and a universal correction $$ for large positive times $t$ and small coupling constants $$, improving on some results of C. King. The remaining, non-universal part of the correction is also shown to be of the same qualitative type. The method consists in approximating the matrix element of the resolvent operator in the W.W. state by a Lorentzian distribution. No use is made of complex energies associated to analytic continuations of the resolvent operator to "unphysical" Riemann sheets. Other new results are presented, in particular a physical interpretation of the corrections and the characterization of the so-called sojourn time as the average lifetime of the decaying state, a standard quantity in (quantum) probability.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09332

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Resonance in context of PDEs (35B34) Spectrum, resolvent (47A10) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Atomic physics (81V45)

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