Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2011-04-21
Phys. Rev. A 84, 012113 (2011)
Physics
Quantum Physics
6 pages, added references and discussion
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.84.012113
While exponential decay is ubiquitous in Nature, deviations at both short and long times are dictated by quantum mechanics. Non-exponential decay is known to arise due to the possibility of reconstructing the initial state from the decaying products. We discuss the quantum decay dynamics by tunneling of a many-particle system, characterizing the long-time non-exponential behavior of the non-escape and survival probabilities. The effects of contact interactions and quantum statistics are described. It is found that whereas for non-interacting bosons the long-time decay follows a power-law with an exponent linear in the number of particles $\N$, the exponent becomes quadratic in $\N$ in the fermionic case. The same results apply to strongly interacting many-body systems related by the generalized Bose-Fermi duality. The faster fermionic decay can be traced back to the effective hard-core interactions between particles, which are as well the decaying products, and exhibit spatial anti-bunching which hinders the reconstruction of the initial unstable state. The results are illustrated with a paradigmatic model of quantum decay from a trap allowing leaks by tunneling, whose dynamics is described exactly by means of an expansion in resonant states.
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