Solution

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An ideal projective measurement of the field's photon number selects the coefficient of . Therefore
Whenever this probability is nonzero, normalization of the projected joint quantum state gives the atomic Bell state
up to a common global phase. The maximum heralding probability is , attained at . At a time with , that conditioning event is impossible, so a conditional state is not defined there. The interpretation is a photon number measurement at the selected time; continuous monitoring of escaping photons would instead change the dynamics and require a different model.

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