Abstract

The effect of resonance fluorescence is one of the most fundamental tools in the modem spectroscopy and is well studied both theoretically and experimentally for the case of excitation by coherent laser field. In the modem quantum optics resonance interaction of a single atom with quantized field is widely used for atom and field state manipulation, thus providing growing interest to considering resonance fluorescence initiated by field states other than coherent: squeezed state and Schrödinger cat like state [1], However, the main hindrance for realising an excitation of an atom by a Schrödinger cat is the destruction of the cat in the act of photon scattering.

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