IOP Publishing, Physica Scripta, (T160), p. 014043
DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/2014/t160/014043
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We study quantum non-Markovianity in the early stage of the emission process of a two-level atom coupled to a semi-infinite waveguide, where the waveguide termination behaves as a perfect mirror. Specifically, we restrict to the analysis of the process for times shorter than twice the time delay t_d, where t_d is the duration of a round trip along the atom-mirror path. We show the emergence of a threshold in the parameters space separating the Markovian and non-Markovian regions. ; Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure