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Chinese Physics Letters

New treatment of quantum revivals

Huang Xiangyou, PENG JIN-SHENG

Published Aug 1, 1989• 1 citation
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Abstract

When a real system consisting of a two-level atom and a single-mode field is described by a pair of state vectors, the energy of the atom shows a stationary cosine oscillation. When this energy is averaged over an ensemble, we get the usual periodic decays and revivals of the mean value of the energy.
DOI
10.1088/0256-307x/6/8/006

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