TY - JOUR AU - Luis Aina, Alfredo PY - 2001 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.64.032104 SN - 1050-2947 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59679 T2 - Physical review A 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... LA - eng M2 - 032104_1 PB - American Physical Society KW - Parametric down-conversion KW - Quantum zeno KW - Single-atom KW - Engineered reservoirs KW - Dark periods KW - Jumps KW - Decoherence KW - Paradox KW - Fluorescence KW - Acceleration TI - Zeno effect in spontaneous decay induced by coupling to an unstable level TY - journal article VL - 64 ER -