Photon correlations are investigated for a single laser-excited ion trapped in front of a mirror. Varying the relative distance between the ion and the mirror, photon correlation statistics can be tuned smoothly from an antibunching minimum to a bunching-like maximum. Our analysis concerns the non-Markovian regime of the ion-mirror interaction and reveals the field establishment in a half-cavity interferometer.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0610065,
title = {Photon correlation vs interference of single-atom fluorescence in a half-cavity},
author = {Francois Dubin and Daniel Rotter and Manas Mukherjee and Carlos Russo and Juergen Eschner and Rainer Blatt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0610065},
year = {2009}
}