Stored light and released fiction
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It is shown that the interpretation of the experimental results reported in the publication Storage of Light in Atomic Vapor" by D.F.Phillips et al., Phys. Rev.Lett. 86, 783 (2001) is incorrect. The experimental observation of this paper can be consistently explained in the framework of standard concepts of the physics of optical pumping and have nothing to do with "storage of light'', or "dynamic reduction of the group velocity'', or "light pulse compression''.
4 pages, Latex, one eps figure, submitted to PRL, minor changes - Authors in the title were missing
4 pages, Latex, one eps figure, submitted to PRL, minor changes - Authors in the title were missing