Projection postulate and atomic quantum Zeno effect

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-65

  Beige, Almut ^a   Hegerfeldt, Gerhard C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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EID: 0002772519     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.53     Document Type: Article

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