SPONTANEOUS EMISSION AND PARTIAL DETECTION OF THE EMITTED PHOTON - A POSSIBLE QUANTUM-MECHANICAL NONLOCAL EFFECT

Citation
B. Crosignani et P. Diporto, SPONTANEOUS EMISSION AND PARTIAL DETECTION OF THE EMITTED PHOTON - A POSSIBLE QUANTUM-MECHANICAL NONLOCAL EFFECT, Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical and statistical physics, 109(5), 1994, pp. 555-557
Citations number
3
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
ISSN journal
11241888
Volume
109
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
555 - 557
Database
ISI
SICI code
1124-1888(1994)109:5<555:SEAPDO>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
Partial detection of the photons emitted by an ensemble of excited ato ms can influence spontaneous decay. This surprising result appears to be of intrinsically quantum-mechanical, non-local nature.