Instability of bound states of time-periodic systems.
(by Kenji Yajima)


The bound states of time periodic Schrödinger equations are unstable under small perturbations which satisfy the Fermi-Golden rule. We show that the potentials which violate the Fermi-Golden rule are confined in a manifold of infinite codimensions in a space of potentials, and that the survival probability of bound states decays exponentially for the time O(log μ), where μ is the size of the perturbation.