Emergence of Fermi's Golden Rule
arXiv:2206.00704 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.140402
Abstract
Fermi's Golden Rule (FGR) applies in the limit where an initial quantum state is weakly coupled to a {\it continuum} of other final states overlapping its energy. Here we investigate what happens away from this limit, where the set of final states is discrete, with a nonzero mean level spacing; this question arises in a number of recently investigated many-body systems. For different symmetry classes, we analytically and/or numerically calculate the universal crossovers in the average decay of the initial state as the level spacing is varied, with the Golden Rule emerging in the limit of a continuum. Among the corrections to the exponential decay of the initial state given by FGR is the appearance of the spectral form factor in the long-time regime for small but nonzero level spacing.
arXiv comment4 pages, 2 figures, supplementary material
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