On the Incorrectness of the Claim about the Observation of Bohr Quantum Jumps in Experiments with Single Atoms
Saprykin E. G. 1, Sorokin V. A. 1
1Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian BranchRussian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Email: Saprykin@iae.nsk.su

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As a result of a retrospective analysis of works reporting the observation of quantum jumps in single ions from 1986 to 2015, the incorrectness of the claim about the detection of Bohr quantum jumps has been demonstrated, and the presumed cause of the misconception has been identified. The authors of the analyzed works mistook a nonlinear interference effect, which manifested in their experiment and accompanies the combinational scattering of radiation, predicted by Russians 10 years before their work, for Bohr jumps. Keywords: barium ions, single atoms, quantum jumps, nonlinear interference effect.
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