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View SchemaIs a multiple excitation of a single atom equivalent to a single excitation of an ensemble of atoms?
| Authors | Ido Kanter, Aviad Frydman, Assaf Ater |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0405081 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0405081 |
| DOI | 10.1209/epl/i2004-10441-9 |
| Journal | Europhysics Letters, 69 874 (2005) |
Abstract
Recent technological advances have enabled to isolate, control and measure the properties of a single atom, leading to the possibility to perform statistics on the behavior of single quantum systems. These experiments have enabled to check a question which was out of reach previously: Is the statistics of a repeatedly excitation of an atom N times equivalent to a single excitation of an ensemble of N atoms? We present a new method to analyze quantum measurements which leads to the postulation that the answer is most probably no. We discuss the merits of the analysis and its conclusion.
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