Fractional decay in the spontaneous emission of a two-level system
Quantum Physics
2025-12-17 v1
Abstract
We find that when the environment of a two-level system has an energy spectrum with a lower bound but without an upper one, the survival probability of the spontaneous emission of the two-level system scales with the spatial dimension and the exponent of the energy dispersion of the environment in the form in the short-time and in the form in the long-time regime. The former fractional scaling of the survival probability leads to a quantum Zeno effect with a different scaling of the Zeno time.
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@article{arxiv.2512.13817,
title = {Fractional decay in the spontaneous emission of a two-level system},
author = {Hiroki Nakabayashi and Hayato Kinkawa and Takano Taira and Naomichi Hatano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.13817},
year = {2025}
}
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6+15 pages, 3+1 figures