Quantum procrastination

P. T. Greenland
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P. T. Greenland: Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College

Nature, 1997, vol. 387, issue 6633, 548-549

Abstract: Exponential decay is a familiar property of any system whose decay rate depends on its remaining, un-decayed quantity (as in the decay of a large number of radioactive nuclei). But now Wilkinson et al. present evidence for decay that is slower than exponential - a clear prediction of quantum mechanics, but one that has not been observed before because the timescales are too short.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/42350

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