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View SchemaSimplified approach to double jumps for fluorescing dipole-dipole interacting atoms
| Authors | Volker Hannstein, Gerhard C. Hegerfeldt |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0602028 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0602028 |
| DOI | 10.1140/epjd/e2006-00076-4 |
| Journal | Eur. Phys. J. D 38, 415 (2006) |
Abstract
A simplified scheme for the investigation of cooperative effects in the quantum jump statistics of small numbers of fluorescing atoms and ions in a trap is presented. It allows the analytic treatment of three dipole-dipole interacting four-level systems which model the relevant level scheme of Ba+ ions. For the latter, a huge rate of double and triple jumps was reported in a former experiment and the huge rate was attributed to the dipole-dipole interaction. Our theoretical results show that the effect of the dipole-dipole interaction on these rates is at most 5% and that for the parameter values of the experiment there is practically no effect. Consequently it seems that the dipole-dipole interaction can be ruled out as a possible explanation for the huge rates reported in the experiment.
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