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Photon Statistics; Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Single Quantum Systems

Shaul Mukamel

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0307768

Abstract

A unified description of multitime correlation functions, nonlinear response functions, and quantum measurements is developed using a common generating function which allows a direct comparison of their information content. A general formal expression for photon counting statistics from single quantum objects is derived in terms of Liouville space correlation functions of the material system by making a single assumption that spontaneous emission is described by a master equation.

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