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When a discrete state is coupled to a continuum, the dynamics can bedescribed either by the Weisskopf-Wigner exponential decay or by the Rabioscillation, depending on the relative magnitudes of the continuum width and ofthe Rabi frequency. A continuous transition between these two regimes exists,as demonstrated in 1977 by C. Cohen-Tannoudji and P. Avan. Here, we describe afully analogous transition in classical mechanics, by studying the dynamics oftwo coupled mechanical oscillators in the presence of damping. By varying therelative magnitudes of the damping and coupling terms, we observe a continuoustransition between a regime analogous to the Rabi oscillation and a regimeanalogous to the Weisskopf-Wigner exponential decay.

Classical analogue of the continuous transition between the Weisskopf-Wigner exponential decay and the Rabi oscillation