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    Area of Science:

    • Optics
    • Statistical Physics
    • Data Analysis

    Background:

    • Correlation functions of scattered light intensity are typically derived from single photocurrent realizations.
    • This leads to statistically dependent values in the correlation function at different delay times.
    • Standard least-squares fitting is suboptimal for analyzing such data.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To evaluate the efficacy of rigorous statistical methods for analyzing photocurrent correlation functions.
    • To compare the accuracy of maximum-likelihood fitting against standard least-squares fitting for relaxation time determination.
    • To investigate the impact of shot noise on the accuracy of these fitting methods.

    Main Methods:

    • Simulated a Gaussian signal with a single-exponential correlation function, excluding shot noise.
    • Applied a maximum-likelihood fitting procedure to the observed signal, enabling an analytical solution.
    • Compared the results with those obtained from a standard least-squares fitting procedure.

    Main Results:

    • The maximum-likelihood method yielded a relaxation time approximately two times more accurate than the standard least-squares fit in the absence of shot noise.
    • The presence of shot noise significantly diminished the accuracy advantage of the rigorous statistical analysis.
    • Shot noise introduces uncorrelated errors, complicating the correlation function analysis.

    Conclusions:

    • Maximum-likelihood principle-based fitting offers superior accuracy for determining relaxation times from scattered light intensity correlation functions.
    • The benefits of rigorous statistical analysis are substantially reduced by the presence of shot noise.
    • Further research is needed to develop robust methods for analyzing correlation functions in the presence of significant shot noise.