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The cascade of fluorescence photons by a two-level atom excited by coherent laser light is reviewed. The discussion emphasizes the random nature of resonance fluorescence and uses the distribution of delays between two successively emitted…

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We demonstrate optical interferometry beyond the limits imposed by the photon wavelength using 'triggered' entangled photon pairs from a semiconductor quantum dot. Interference fringes of the entangled biphoton state reveals a periodicity…

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We discuss an experimental setup where two laser-driven atoms spontaneously emit photons and every photon causes a ``click'' at a point on a screen. By deriving the probability density for an emission into a certain direction from basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Almut Beige , Christian Schoen , Jiannis Pachos

Double-slits provide incoming photons with a choice. Those that survive the passage have chosen from two possible paths which interfere to distribute them in a wave-like manner. Such wave-particle duality continues to be challenged and…

Optics · Physics 2013-01-30 B. King , A. Di Piazza , C. H. Keitel

The second-order temporal interference between two independent single-mode continuous-wave lasers is discussed by employing two-photon interference in Feynman's path integral theory. It is concluded that whether the second-order temporal…

Optics · Physics 2016-03-18 Jianbin Liu , Dong Wei , Hui Chen , Yu Zhou , Huaibin Zheng , Hong Gao , Fu-li Li , Zhuo Xu

Stimulated by a recent measurement of coherent control in photoionization of atomic barium, we have calculated one- and two-photon ionization cross sections of the aligned 6s6p^1P_1 state of barium in the energy range between the 5d_{3/2}…

Controlling the photon statistics of light is paramount for quantum science and technologies. Recently, we demonstrated that transmitting resonant laser light past an ensemble of two-level emitters can result in a stream of single photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Martin Cordier , Max Schemmer , Philipp Schneeweiss , Jürgen Volz , Arno Rauschenbeutel

It is by the long established fact in experiment and theory that electromagnetic waves, here as one component of an IED particle, passing a double slit will undergo self inference each, producing at a detector plane fringed intensities. The…

General Physics · Physics 2015-02-27 J. X. Zheng-Johansson

If identical photons meet at a semi-transparent mirror they appear to leave in the same direction, an effect called "two-photon interference". It has been known for some time that this effect should occur for photons generated by dissimilar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-07 A. J. Bennett , R. B. Patel , C. A. Nicoll , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

We review different attempts to show the decoherence process in double-slit-like experiments both for charged particles (electrons) and neutral particles with permanent dipole moments. Interference is studied when electrons or atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fernando C. Lombardo , Paula I. Villar

We report an interference experiment of spontaneous emission of light from two distant solid-state ensembles of atoms that are coherently excited by a short laser pulse. The ensembles are Erbium ions doped into two LiNbO3 crystals with…

We study the two-photon laser excitation to the 5D$_{5/2}$ energy level of $^{85}$Rb atoms contained in the interstices of a porous material made from sintered ground glass with typical pore dimensions in the 10 - 100 $\mu$m range. The…

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The interference pattern of the resonance fluorescence from a J=1/2 to J=1/2 transition of two identical atoms confined in a three-dimensional harmonic potential is calculated. Thermal motion of the atoms is included. Agreement is obtained…

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Measurements of the phase of two-photon matrix elements are presented for resonant and antiresonant two-color ionization of helium. A tunable, narrow-bandwidth, near-infrared (NIR) laser source is used for extreme ultra-violet (XUV)…

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The time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the hydrogen atom and its interaction with coherent intense high-frequency short laser pulses is solved numerically exactly by propagating the single-electron wave packets. Thereby, the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-09-11 Philipp V. Demekhin , David Hochstuhl , Lorenz S. Cederbaum

We investigate the laser-assisted single XUV photon double ionization of ground state helium. By solving full six-dimensional time-dependent schr{\"o}dinger equation, we study the correlation and angular distribution. The discussion in…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Fengzheng Zhu , Genliang Li , Aihua Liu

We address the influence of the orbital symmetry and of the molecular alignment with respect to the laser-field polarization on laser-induced nonsequential double ionization of diatomic molecules, in the length and velocity gauges. We work…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Figueira de Morisson Faria , T. Shaaran , X. Liu , W. Yang

Vacuum-stimulated Raman transitions are driven between two magnetic substates of a rubidium-87 atom strongly coupled to an optical cavity. A magnetic field lifts the degeneracy of these states, and the atom is alternately exposed to laser…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Wilk , S. C. Webster , H. P. Specht , G. Rempe , A. Kuhn

We analyze interference processes in atomic ionization induced by a two-color laser with fundamental frequency $\omega $ and its second harmonic $2\omega $. The interplay between inter- and intracycle interference processes give rise to…

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