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collapse and revival: a standalone construct

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Quantum optics

the decay and later reappearance of Rabi oscillations of an atom in a quantized light field, a signature of field quantization.

In quantum optics, collapse and revival refers to the decay and later reappearance of Rabi oscillations of an atom in a quantized light field, a signature of field quantization. This meaning comes from Eberly (1980) in Physical Review Letters.[1]

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References

Eberly, J. H., Narozhny, N. B., & Sanchez-Mondragon, J. J. (1980). Periodic Spontaneous Collapse and Revival in a Simple Quantum Model. Physical Review Letters, 44(20), 1323-1326. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.44.1323

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