Correlation time (${\tau }_c$)

A correlation time measures how rapidly a stationary stochastic process loses temporal dependence. Specify whether it means an exponential decay time, an integral of the normalized autocorrelation, or another width. For $R(t)=R(0)e^{-|t|/\tau }$, the exponential time and the one-sided integral ${\int }_0^{\infty }R(t)dt/R(0)$ both equal $\tau$.