On the Emergence of Exponential Decay from Discrete Spectra for Friedrichs Hamiltonians

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.29485v1
• Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:49:54 GMT
• Title: On the Emergence of Exponential Decay from Discrete Spectra for Friedrichs Hamiltonians
• Abstract summary: We study a class of Friedrichs Hamiltonians describing an excited state coupled to a bath through a rank-one perturbation.<n>We consider sequences of such Hamiltonians for which the spectral measures associated to the coupling functions by the bath Hamiltonians converge weakly to a limiting measure.
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• Abstract: We study a class of Friedrichs Hamiltonians, that is, operators describing an excited state coupled to a bath through a rank-one perturbation, in the case where the bath Hamiltonian has purely discrete spectrum. We consider sequences of such Hamiltonians for which the spectral measures associated to the coupling functions by the bath Hamiltonians converge weakly to a limiting measure that is absolutely continuous with a Hölder continuous density near the excited energy. Under this assumption, we show that the survival probability of the excited state decays in an approximately exponential manner on suitable time scales and under favourable conditions, with a decay rate given by Fermi's golden rule for the limiting measure. The error is estimated in terms of the coupling strength and the Lévy distance between the discrete spectral measures and the limiting measure. As an application, we treat a two-level atom coupled to a massless bosonic field confined to a large cavity in the rotating-wave approximation.

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