Interference and dynamics of light from a distance-controlled atom pair in an optical cavity

Unconventional interference and statistics of photon fields are studied using two-state 87Rb atoms interacting with photons in an optical cavity. The observations are well described by the Tavis-Cummings model in the strong-coupling regime.

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