Abstract
We analyze a measurement strategy in which we first send N excited two-level atoms through a maser cavity and then measure the total excitation n of the atoms after their interaction with the maser field. In this case the field in the cavity after the measurement is governed by the quantum mechanical interference of probability amplitudes corresponding to all possible sequences of n excited and N − n de-excited atoms.
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