Wave-function collapse due to null measurements: The origin of intermittent atomic fluorescence

M. Porrati; S. Putterman

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.36.929

Wave-function collapse due to null measurements: The origin of intermittent atomic fluorescence

M. Porrati, S. Putterman

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Abstract

The observation of no photons emitted by a fluorescing multilevel atom dramatically affects its future evolution. This collapse of the quantum state due to measurements with a null result is the cause of intermittent atomic fluorescence even when the exciting field is arbitrarily coherent.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	929-932
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical Review A
Volume	36
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.36.929
State	Published - 1987

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Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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