Decay of Unstable States
- 18 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 41 (25), 1685-1688
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.41.1685
Abstract
By choosing a suitable probability distribution the decay of an unstable state of a macroscopic system can be described deterministically; the effects of fluctuations then show up in the initial probability density. There is no need to distinguish an initial linear and diffusive regime from a later deterministic one.Keywords
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