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arxiv: 1008.3920 · v1 · pith:EWPLJWXZnew · submitted 2010-08-23 · 🪐 quant-ph · physics.atom-ph

Observation of ground-state quantum beats in atomic spontaneous emission

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keywords beatsquantumatomicemissionground-statespontaneousautocorrelationcoherence
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We report ground-state quantum beats in spontaneous emission from a continuously driven atomic ensemble. Beats are visible only in an intensity autocorrelation and evidence spontaneously generated coherence in radiative decay. Our measurement realizes a quantum eraser where a first photon detection prepares a superposition and a second erases the "which-path" information in the intermediate state.

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