Abstract
In the framework of the rigged Hilbert space, unstable quantum systems associated with first order poles of the analytically continued S-matrix can be described by Gamow vectors which are generalized vectors with exponential decay and a Breit-Wigner energy distribution. This mathematical formalism can be generalized to quasistationary systems associated with higher order poles of the S-matrix, which leads to a set of Gamow vectors of higher order with a non-exponential time evolution. One can define a state operator from the set of higher order Gamow vectors which obeys the exponential decay law. We shall discuss to what extend the requirement of an exponential time evolution determines the form of the state operator for a quasistationary microphysical system associated with a higher order pole of the S-matrix.
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