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Cooperative effects in the fluorescence of two dipole-interacting atoms, with macroscopic quantum jumps (light and dark periods), are investigated. The transition rates between different intensity periods are calculated in closed form and are used to determine the rates of double jumps between periods of double intensity and dark periods, the mean duration of the three intensity periods and the mean rate of their occurrence. We predict, to our knowledge for the first time, cooperative effects for double jumps, for atomic distances from one and to ten wave lengths of the strong transition. The double jump rate, as a function of the atomic distance, can show oscillations of up to 30% at distances of about a wave length, and oscillations are still noticeable at a distance of ten wave lengths. The cooperative effects of the quantities and their characteristic behavior turn out to be strongly dependent on the laser detuning.
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Received 19 March 2001 and Received in final form 13 June 2001
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Addicks, S., Beige, A., Dakna, M. et al. Double jumps and transition rates for two dipole-interacting atoms. Eur. Phys. J. D 15, 393–404 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530170156
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530170156