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Quantum Zeno effect in the decay onto an unstable level

✍ Scribed by Michael B. Mensky

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 53 KB
Volume: 257
Category: Article
ISSN: 0375-9601
DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9601(99)00290-x

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✦ Synopsis

Under certain assumptions it is shown that the decay of level 2 of a three-level system onto level 1 is slowed down because of the further decay of level 1 onto level 0. It is argued that this phenomenon may be interpreted as a consequence Ž of the quantum Zeno effect. The reason why this may be possible is that the second decay or accompanying photon . radiation may be considered as a sign of the transition 2 ™ 1 so that during the first transition the system is under continuous observation.

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