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Joint Quantum Institute

Dark States

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This is an energy level diagram showing two paths by which at atom can attain state 3. The 1-to-3 avenue can be made to compete with the 2-to-3 transition, thus precluding the atom from ever arriving in state 3. It is, in effect, a dark state.

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