Abstract
The resonance width may be directly determined by solving an eigenvalue equation for width operator which is derived in this work based on the method of complex scaling transformation. The width operator approach is advantageous to the conventional rotating coordinate method in twofold; 1) calculation can be done in real arithmetics and, 2) so-called θ-trajectory is not required for determining the resonance widths. Application to one- and two-dimensional model problems can be easily implemented.