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The effects of collisions on quantum beats obtained following sudden excitation of a multiplet of states which simultaneously decay to a lower state or a lower multiplet are considered. The photobeats are associated with single-photon decay, as opposed to two- or more-photon correlations and, as such, represent the effects of intra-atomic coherence [1,2].
Research supported by the U.S. Office of Naval Research.
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Herman, R.M., Meyer, K.S. (1978). General Theory for Collisional Effects in Quantum Beat Spectroscopy. In: Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics IV. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0665-9_76
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