Accuracy of Measurement for Counting and Intensity-Correlation Experiments
- 25 October 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 140 (2B), B500-B509
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.140.B500
Abstract
A quantum-mechanical analysis is made of the experimental accuracy to be expected for particle-counting and intensity-correlation experiments. The mean-square fluctuation for an ensemble, consisting of a large number of experiments each conducted over a time interval , is calculated.
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