Quantum Zeno Effect for Exponentially Decaying Systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 304011-304014

  Koshino, Kazuki ^a,b   Shimizu, Akira ^a,c  

^a JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BAND STRUCTURE; BANDWIDTH; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PHOTODETECTORS; PROBABILITY;

ANNIHILATION OPERATOR; DECAYING SYSTEMS; QUANTUM ZENO EFFECT (QZE);

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 1442355810     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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