Abstract
The measurements in the experimental test of quantum Zeno effect, reported by Itano et al. [Phys. Rev. A 41, 2295 (1990)], are analyzed using the environment-induced decoherence theory. The spontaneous emission lifetime of the relevant level emerges as the ‘decoherence time’ which sets a fundamental limit on the realizability of the condition of continuous measurements.
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Ghosh, R., Venugopalan, A. (1996). Measurement by Decoherence in the Quantum Zeno Experiment. In: Eberly, J.H., Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9742-8_77
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