A pedestrian introduction to Gamow vectors

DOI10.1119/1.1466817zbMATH Open1219.81239arXivquant-ph/0201091OpenAlexW1995173622MaRDI QIDQ3088693FDOQ3088693

Authors: Rafael de la Madrid, M. Gadella 

Publication date: 19 August 2011

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

Abstract: The Gamow vector description of resonances is compared with the S-matrix and the Green function descriptions using the example of the square barrier potential. By imposing different boundary conditions on the time independent Schrodinger equation, we obtain either eigenvectors corresponding to real eigenvalues and the physical spectrum or eigenvectors corresponding to complex eigenvalues (Gamow vectors) and the resonance spectrum. We show that the poles of the S matrix are the same as the poles of the Green function and are the complex eigenvalues of the Schrodinger equation subject to a purely outgoing boundary condition. The intrinsic time asymmetry of the purely outgoing boundary condition is discussed. Finally, we show that the probability of detecting the decay within a shell around the origin of the decaying state follows an exponential law if the Gamow vector (resonance) contribution to this probability is the only contribution that is taken into account.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0201091

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum scattering theory (81U99) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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