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View SchemaThe Zeno and anti-Zeno effects on decay in dissipative quantum systems
| Authors | A. G. Kofman, G. Kurizki |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9912077 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9912077 |
| Journal | acta physica slovaca 49 (1999) 541-548 (the title there is ``Decay control in dissipative quantum systems'') |
Abstract
We point out that the quantum Zeno effect, i.e., inhibition of spontaneous decay by frequent measurements, is observable only in spectrally finite reservoirs, i.e., in cavities and waveguides, using a sequence of evolution-interrupting pulses or randomly-modulated CW fields. By contrast, such measurements can only accelerate decay in free space.
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