Abstract

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.

Publication Details
Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2010
Volume
105
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.123602
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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