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Europhysics Letters (EPL)

Effect of State Superpositions Created by Spontaneous Emission on Laser-Driven Transitions

Juha Javanainen

Published Feb 1, 1992• 249 citations
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Abstract

Spontaneous decay of an excited atomic state may give rise to a coherent superposition of two recipient states. Experiments utilizing laser-driven three-level Λ systems are devised whose outcomes differ qualitatively depending on the presence or absence of such a spontaneous generation of coherence.
DOI
10.1209/0295-5075/17/5/005

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