Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 35, Number 3, July 1996
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Page(s) | 165 - 170 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1996-00549-4 | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
Can spontaneous emission be influenced by the presence of a distant detector?
1
California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
2
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università dell'Aquila -
67010 L'Aquila, Italy
Received:
11
December
1995
Accepted:
11
June
1996
We show that the spontaneous-emission process could be altered
by continuously monitoring the emitting system by means of a spherical counter
of quantum efficiency , placed at a finite distance L. This surprising
result is related neither to Zeno's effect nor to any cavity effect, but
is of intrinsically quantum-mechanical non-local nature.
PACS: 03.65.Bz – Foundations, theory of measurement, miscellaneous theories (including Aharonov-Bohm effect, Bell inequalities, Berry's phase)
© EDP Sciences, 1996
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