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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 8: Quantum Effects: Interference and Correlations II / Entanglement and Decoherence I

Q 8.4: Talk

Monday, March 8, 2010, 17:30–17:45, A 310

Using coherently backscattered light from two atoms to measure the photon statistics of dipole-dipole interactions — •Vyacheslav Shatokhin^1,2, Sergei Kilin², and Andreas Buchleitner¹ — ¹Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany — ²B.I.Stepanov Institute of Physics, Minsk, Belarus

We discuss properties of the second-order temporal intensity correlation function of laser light coherently backscattered from two isotropic atoms in the helicity preserving polarization channel. We show that this function exhibits photon antibunching, and hence, it can be used as a measure of the photon statistics of resonant dipole-dipole interactions.