Periodic Spontaneous Collapse and Revival in a Simple Quantum Model
- 19 May 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 44 (20), 1323-1326
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.44.1323
Abstract
This Letter reports on the existence of periodic spontaneous collapse and revival of coherence in the dynamics of a simple quantum model. Also given are the first accurate expressions for the intermediate-time and long-time dynamical behavior of the model.Keywords
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