Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 39, Number 2, July II 1997
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Page(s) | 231 - 232 | |
Section | Cross-disciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1997-00339-6 | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
The presence of a distant detector does not seem to influence spontaneous emission
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Física, Caixa Postal 68528,
21945-970 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Received:
9
October
1996
Accepted:
4
June
1997
It is shown that a recent claim, according to which 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, is unfounded. The error arises from an incorrect reasoning.
PACS: 03.65.Bz – Foundations, theory of measurement, miscellaneous theories (including Aha ro nov-Bohm effect, Bell inequalities, Berry's phase)
© EDP Sciences, 1997
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