Observation of quantum jumps
Abstract
We have recorded the laser-excited resonance fluorescence of one to three Ba+ ions and observed Bohr's ``quantum jumps'' when an ion decayed to the metastable 2D5/2 state, suddenly quenching its fluorescence. Most of the jumps mark Raman-Stokes scattering from the 2S1/2 and 2D3/2 levels.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 1986
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.57.1696
- Bibcode:
- 1986PhRvL..57.1696S
- Keywords:
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- Atomic Interactions;
- Electromagnetic Interactions;
- Laser Induced Fluorescence;
- Quantum Mechanics;
- Resonance Fluorescence;
- Barium;
- Quenching (Atomic Physics);
- Raman Spectra;
- Atomic and Molecular Physics;
- 32.80.Pj;
- 32.70.Fw;
- Optical cooling of atoms;
- trapping;
- Absolute and relative intensities