Reflection and transmission in a neutron-spin test of the quantum Zeno effect

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 3448-3460

  Machida, Ken ^a   Nakazato, Hiromichi ^a   Pascazio, Saverio ^b   Rauch, Helmut ^c   Yu, Sixia ^d  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

^c TU WIEN   (Austria)

^d INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

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EID: 0001420148     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.60.3448     Document Type: Article

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