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Measuring a coherent superposition

N. V. Vitanov, B. W. Shore, R. G. Unanyan, K. Bergmann

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9906051

Abstract

We propose a simple method for measuring the populations and the relative phase in a coherent superposition of two atomic states. The method is based on coupling the two states to a third common (excited) state by means of two laser pulses, and measuring the total fluorescence from the third state for several choices of the excitation pulses.

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