Wave-function collapse due to null measurements: The origin of intermittent atomic fluorescence
- 1 July 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 36 (2) , 929-932
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.36.929
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.Keywords
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