Abstract
The observation of no photons emitted by a fluorescing multilevel atom dramatically affects its future evolution. This collapse of the quantum state due to measurements with a null result is the cause of intermittent atomic fluorescence even when the exciting field is arbitrarily coherent.
- Received 19 December 1986
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.36.929
©1987 American Physical Society
