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Annals of Physics

Resonance fluorescence and quantum jumps in single atoms: Testing the randomness of quantum mechanics

THOMAS ERBER, Peter X. Hammerling, G. Hockney, Massimo Porrati B, Seth Putterman

Published Mar 1, 1989• 32 citations
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10.1016/0003-4916(89)90016-x

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One of the experiments made possible by the trapping and cooling of a single atom is to observe the quantum jumps to a metastable state in the atom by monitoring the resonance fluorescence of a strong transition in which at least one of the states is coupled to the metastable state. When the atomic electron moves to the metastable state, the fluorescence from the strongly driven transition disappears. When the electron drops back into the strongly driven transition, the fluorescence abruptly returns. Statistical analysis of these random interruptions to the fluorescence signal implies photon antibunching in the emission of the weak photon.