Phys. Rev. A 53, R1970–R1973 (1996)Breaking of symmetry through spontaneous emission
We show that spontaneous emission can significantly alter the dynamics of a two-atom microlaser. This feature can persist even for very small decay rates and is a consequence of the existence of two coherently decoupled sets of two-atom states. We find, however, that under favorable conditions (as are found in ion traps) spontaneous emission can increase atom-atom correlations by optically pumping the atoms into an entangled two-atom state. © 1996 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.53.R1970
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.53.R1970
PACS:
42.50.Fx, 42.50.Lc, 42.55.-f
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