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Progress of Theoretical Physics

A Remark on the Norm of the Unstable State

Noboru Hokkyo

Published Jun 1, 1965• 85 citations
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Abstract

The theory of adjoint functions developed in the treatment of non-self-adjoint systems such as nuclear reactors is applied to quantum systems and a method of normalizing wave functions describing unstable decaying states is presented.
DOI
10.1143/ptp.33.1116

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