Abstract
Most experimental observations of physical processes are naturally accompanied by “blind” (“dead”) times, which in principle can distort the result of measurements. Here we analyze how the presence of blind times in measurements changes the measured statistics of blinking fluorescence of single quantum dots. We show that information can be extracted even for blinking processes with characteristic times longer than both blind times and time slots between them.
- Received 18 May 2015
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.032102
©2015 American Physical Society
Synopsis
Blink and You Won’t Miss It
Published 1 September 2015
Regular disruptions to an experiment can increase the uncertainty of a measured quantity, but don’t necessarily change its value.
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