Abstract

The Rabi oscillations have been considered to be an inherent property of coherent interactions of single atoms with electromagnetic field. Recently, it has been shown [1] that a mean dipole moment in single-atom resonance fluorescence excited by a superposition of coherent states does not display oscillations but rather an exponential growth. Such an unusual evidence of nonclassical properties of Schrödinger-cat states can be observed in high-Q optical and microwave cavities [2].

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