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The dynamics of the quantum-statistical properties of the radiation of an atom in a cavity interacting with an external coherent field is investigated. A high level of quantum fluctuations of the field in the cavity is shown to destroy optical bistability in the multiatom case. Photon-number fluctuations and the spectral dispersion of the canonically conjugate quadratures of the field inside and outside a cavity are calculated. It is found that in contrast to the multiatom case quadrature squeezing and squeezing of the radiation intensity of a single atom are negligible inside and outside the cavity.
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Zh. Éksp. Teor. Fiz. 115, 2001–2013 (June 1999)
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Kozlovskii, A.V., Oraevskii, A.N. Removal of single-atom optical bistability by quantum fluctuations. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 88, 1095–1101 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.558897
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