Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1900471 | Reports on Mathematical Physics | 2011 | 25 Pages |
There is sufficient experimental evidence that a Breit–Wigner scattering resonance of width
ΓΓ is the same physical entity as an exponentially decaying Gamow state of lifetime
τ=ℏ/Γ.τ=ℏ/Γ. In order to derive a Gamow ket with exponential time evolution from the Breit–Wigner scattering amplitude of the S-matrix pole, one has to make assumptions about the mathematical properties of the energy wave function for the prepared in-state
φ+φ+ and the detected out-“state”
ψ−ψ− of a resonance scattering experiment. These mathematical properties identify the space of in-state energy-wave functions as
{φ+(E)}=H2¯ and of out-state wave functions as
{ψ−(E)}=H+2 as the Hardy function spaces of the lower and upper complex energy plane. The semigroup-time asymmetry
t0=0