Quantum Late-Time Decay and Channel Dependence

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Autores principales: Giacosa, Francesco, Kolbus, Anna, Kyziol, Krzysztof, Plodowska, Magdalena, Piotrowska, Milena, Szary, Karol, Vereijken, Arthur
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Publicado: 2025
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author Giacosa, Francesco
Kolbus, Anna
Kyziol, Krzysztof
Plodowska, Magdalena
Piotrowska, Milena
Szary, Karol
Vereijken, Arthur
author_facet Giacosa, Francesco
Kolbus, Anna
Kyziol, Krzysztof
Plodowska, Magdalena
Piotrowska, Milena
Szary, Karol
Vereijken, Arthur
contents Quantum mechanics predicts deviations from exponential decay at short and long times, yet experimental evidence is limited. We report a power-law tail after $\sim$10 lifetimes in erythrosine~B fluorescence, confirmed by two detectors probing distinct bands but yielding different power coefficients. The data match a divergent but normalizable spectral density, and theory predicts oscillations as a future test. A novel and general result is that in multichannel QM (and QFT) decay the lifetime is universal, but the late-time deviations exhibit a sizeable time window in which they are channel (or band) dependent, a feature consistent with our data.
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spellingShingle Quantum Late-Time Decay and Channel Dependence
Giacosa, Francesco
Kolbus, Anna
Kyziol, Krzysztof
Plodowska, Magdalena
Piotrowska, Milena
Szary, Karol
Vereijken, Arthur
Quantum Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
Quantum mechanics predicts deviations from exponential decay at short and long times, yet experimental evidence is limited. We report a power-law tail after $\sim$10 lifetimes in erythrosine~B fluorescence, confirmed by two detectors probing distinct bands but yielding different power coefficients. The data match a divergent but normalizable spectral density, and theory predicts oscillations as a future test. A novel and general result is that in multichannel QM (and QFT) decay the lifetime is universal, but the late-time deviations exhibit a sizeable time window in which they are channel (or band) dependent, a feature consistent with our data.
title Quantum Late-Time Decay and Channel Dependence
topic Quantum Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Nuclear Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17163