Europhysics Letters (EPL)

The Atom Under a Continuous-Counting Observation: Relaxation Without Mixing

P. Staszewski, Grażyna Staszewska

Published Oct 1, 1992• 8 citations

Abstract

The posterior stochastic Schrödinger equation for the atom under a continuous-counting observation has been solved. The statistics of photon counts has been found. It has been proved that the atom relaxes without mixing to its ground state.

DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/20/3/001

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