Photon correlation vs interference of single-atom fluorescence in a half-cavity

Abstract

Photon correlations are investigated for a single laser-excited ion trapped in front of a mirror. Varying the relative distance between the ion and the mirror, photon correlation statistics can be tuned smoothly from an antibunching minimum to a bunching-like maximum. Our analysis concerns the non-Markovian regime of the ion-mirror interaction and reveals the field establishment in a half-cavity interferometer.

4 pages, 3 figures

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• Scalable multi-particle entanglement of trapped ions
• Forces between a single atom and its distant mirror image

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