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arxiv: quant-ph/0209134 · v1 · submitted 2002-09-25 · 🪐 quant-ph

Dynamical suppression of radiative decay via atomic deflection by a standing light wave

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We consider the radiative decay of atoms scattered by a resonant standing light wave. Scattering is shown to suppress the Rabi oscillations and to slow down the atomic radiative decay giving rise to a power law behavior of the time-dependent level populations rather than the exponential one.

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