RT Journal Article
T1 Zeno effect in spontaneous decay induced by coupling to an unstable level
A1 Luis Aina, Alfredo
AB A metastable atomic level can be tendered unstable in a controllable way by coupling it to a decaying state. In this work we carry out a full dynamical analysis of the Zeno effect in this kind of unstable systems, comparing it to the inhibition of purely coherent Rabi oscillations. Simple and experimentally feasible measuring strategies involving three atomic levels are considered. It is shown that this induced decay is actually an example of a partial Zeno effect so that the observed evolution results from the competition of two Zeno effects. We also show that a three-level scheme can display both coherent, incoherent, and anti-Zeno effects.
PB American Physical Society
SN 1050-2947
YR 2001
FD 2001-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59679
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59679
LA eng
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