Inhibition of spontaneous decay by continuous measurements. Proposal for realizable experiment

Optics Communications

Volumn 123, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 278-286

  Plenio, M B ^a   Knight, P L ^a   Thompson, R C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; IONS; LASER APPLICATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COHERENT TRANSITION; EXPONENTIAL DECAY; MULTILEVEL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM ZENO EFFECT;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029752603     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0030-4018(95)00558-7     Document Type: Article

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