Quantum state reduction and conditional time evolution of wave-particle correlations in cavity QED.
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We report measurements in cavity QED of a wave-particle correlation function which records the conditional time evolution of the field of a fraction of a photon. Detection of a photon prepares a state of well-defined phase that evolves back to equilibrium via a damped vacuum Rabi oscillation. We record the regression of the field amplitude. The recorded correlation function is nonclassical and provides an efficiency independent path to the spectrum of squeezing. Nonclassicality is observed even when the intensity fluctuations are classical.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Physical review letters
دوره 85 15 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000