Abstract
Application of the squeezed vacuum field to a number of classic problems has led to predictions of many new effects and new techniques in quantum optics and atomic spectroscopy. The squeezed field is characterized by two parameters: the number of photons N and the complex parameter M = |M|exp(φ), where |M| is the degree of squeezing and (p is the phase. The interaction of a single two-level atom with the squeezed and coherent fields leads to the phase-sensitive resonance fluorescence and absorption spectra.1,2 The interaction of a collection of atoms with the squeezed field can result in the pairwise atomic states3,4 in which not all collective atomic states are populated. This effect is not phase sensitive, but strongly depends on |M|.
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