Inhibition of decoherence due to decay in a continuum

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 19, 2001, Pages 4271-4274

  Agarwal, G S ^a,b   Scully, M O ^b,c   Walther, H ^b  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

DESTRUCTIVE INTERFERENCES;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0035820804     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4271     Document Type: Article

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41. We have used for simplicity a Taylor series solution of the Schrödinger equation. Similar results are obtained by using (say) the full evolution operator or by density matrix methods.