Abstract

Resonance fluorescent light is known to exhibit nonclassical effects, such as photon antibunching.^1,2 These nonclassical properties usually vanish when the field is irradiated by many atoms. However, as suggested by several authors,^3,4,5 such effects might remain important even when many atoms are involved in the process, if some phase matching is achieved. We present such a situation, i.e., photon antibunching in many-atom resonance fluorescence.

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