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Photon Counting Statistics for Single Molecule Spectroscopy

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We present a general relation between Mandel's QQ parameter describing variance of number of photons emitted from a single molecule and a three time correlation function describing a spectral diffusion process the molecule is undergoing. For a prototype of such a stochastic process an exact solution is found which exhibits rich types of physical behaviors.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0104188,
  title  = {Photon Counting Statistics for Single Molecule Spectroscopy},
  author = {Eli Barkai and YounJoon Jung and Robert Silbey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0104188},
  year   = {2007}
}