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View SchemaSlowing the Decay of an Excited Atom by the Presence of a Detector
| Authors | D. R. Fredkin, Amiram Ron |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0702140 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702140 |
Abstract
The decay of an excited is shown to slow down in the presence of a photo detector. This is similar to the behavior of an atom in a mistuned cavity, and under the conditions of the quantum Zeno effect. No external perturbing field is applied to measure the survival probability of the unstable state.
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