Hanbury Brown-Twiss Correlations for a Driven Superatom
J Lampen1, A Duspayev1, H Nguyen1
1Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
Abstract:
Hanbury Brown-Twiss interference and stimulated emission, two fundamental processes in atomic physics, have been studied in a wide range of applications in science and technology. We study interference effects that occur when a weak probe is sent through a gas of two-level atoms that are prepared in a singly excited collective (Dicke or "superatom") state and for atoms prepared in a factorized state. We measure the time-integrated second-order correlation function g^{(2)} of the output field as a function of the delay τ between the input probe field and radiation emitted by the atoms and find that, for the Dicke state, g^{(2)} is twice as large for τ=0 as it is for γ_{e}τ≫1 (γ_{e} is an excited state decay rate), while for the product state, this ratio is equal to 3/2. The results agree with those of a theoretical model in which any effects related to stimulated emission are totally neglected-the coincidence counts measured in our experiment arise from Hanbury Brown-Twiss interference between the input field and the field radiated by the atoms.
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