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Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 253001 (2001) [4 pages]

Complete Suppression of Spontaneous Decay of a Manifold of States by Infrequent Interruptions

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Einat Frishman and Moshe Shapiro*
Chemical Physics Department, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100 Israel

Received 28 February 2001; published 29 November 2001

Complete suppression of spontaneous decay of a manifold of states is shown to be achievable in a model system by a combination of coherent excitation of overlapping resonances and a judicious infrequent application of microwave pulses.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.253001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.253001
PACS:
32.80.Qk, 33.80.-b

*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Email address: moshe.shapiro@weizmann.ac.il