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arxiv: 1812.00129 · v1 · pith:NHYHDK6Jnew · submitted 2018-12-01 · 🪐 quant-ph

Upper bound on the duration of quantum jumps

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keywords quantumbounddurationjumpstimeupperaccountatomic
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We present a method to estimate the time scale of quantum jumps from the time correlation of photon pairs generated from a cascade decay in an atomic system, and realize it experimentally in a cold cloud of 87Rb. Taking into account the photodetector response, we find an upper bound for the duration of a quantum jump of 21+/-11 ps.

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