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arxiv: quant-ph/0702140 · v1 · submitted 2007-02-14 · 🪐 quant-ph

Slowing the Decay of an Excited Atom by the Presence of a Detector

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The decay of an excited is shown to slow down in the presence of a photo detector. This is similar to the behavior of an atom in a mistuned cavity, and under the conditions of the quantum Zeno effect. No external perturbing field is applied to measure the survival probability of the unstable state.

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