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Looking at a blinking quantum emitter through time slots: The effect of blind times

A. L. Shchukina, I. Yu. Eremchev, and A. V. Naumov
Phys. Rev. E 92, 032102 – Published 1 September 2015
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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.

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  • Received 18 May 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.032102

©2015 American Physical Society

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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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A. L. Shchukina1,2,*, I. Yu. Eremchev2, and A. V. Naumov2,3

  • 1Center of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland
  • 2Institute for Spectroscopy of Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, 142910 Moscow, Russia
  • 3Moscow State Pedagogical University, 119991 Moscow, Russia

  • *shchukina@isan.troitsk.ru; http://www.single-molecule.ru

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Vol. 92, Iss. 3 — September 2015

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