Abstract
In this paper we demonstrate competitive Zeno physics in the dissipative Jaynes-Cummings model. The mechanism relies on Zeno coexistence between the single-mode field and the environment. We show that the Zeno suppression of coherent evolution predicted by the standard Jaynes-Cummings model can dramatically fail in the presence of the dissipative environment. For hydrogen atom, such a Zeno effect is not usually observable because the environment ignored previously would, in fact, work in a dominant manner. Moreover, beyond the extremely short-time measurement limit in atomic decay, the Zeno time for hydrogen reaches s in the dressed-state picture, which presents an immediately realizable Zeno scheme for the decay of a real atom in the current technology.
- Received 4 January 2022
- Accepted 3 May 2022
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.105.052208
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