Phys. Rev. Lett. 42, 1740 - 1743 (1979)Macroscopic Quantum Fluctuations in Superfluorescence |
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This Week's Milestone Letters are from 1981: |
Fritz Haake, Harald King, Guntram Schröder, and Joe Haus
Fachbereich Physik, Gesamthochschule Essen, 43 Essen, West Germany
Roy Glauber
Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Fred Hopf *
Projektgruppe für Laserforschung, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Garching, West Germany
Received 7 March 1979
We show that superfluorescent pulses fluctuate singificantly in shape notwithstanding their classical dynamical behavior. These fluctuations can be understood as originating from the quantum mechanical uncertainty of the initial polarization.
©1979 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v42/p1740
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.42.1740
* On leave of absence from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. 85721.
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