Decay of a two-level atom
M. P. Sharma, David A. Cardimona, A. Gavrielides · Physical Review A · 1990
We have reexamined the two-level atom with decay from the excited state out of the system and have noticed a rather surprising result. The intuitive exponential decay of the ground state at the damping rate of the excited state is actually reduced substantially when this damping rate is much greater than the Rabi frequency between the two states.