Abstract
We investigate effects of spontaneous decay on the Rabi population oscillation exhibited by a two-level atom driven by a monochromatic field. We show that the semiclassical theory and the fully quantum-mechanical theory predict in general different damping rates of the Rabi oscillation.
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