Influence of measurement on the lifetime and the linewidth of unstable systems

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 032102-032101

  Elattari, Brahim ^a,b   Gurvitz, S A ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES   (Morocco)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTRON TUNNELING; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FERMI LEVEL; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

LORENTZIAN DENSITY OF STATES; QUANTUM MECHANICAL TREATMENT; QUANTUM ZENO EFFECT; SCHRODINGER EQUATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 4243778412     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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