Dataset DOI: 10.5061/dryad.0vt4b8hbf

Description of the data and file structure

Files and variables

List of files:

• Fig1D.csv
• Fig1E.csv
• Fig2A.csv
• Fig2B.csv
• Fig2C.csv
• Fig2D.csv
• Fig3B.csv
• Fig3C.csv
• Fig3D.csv
• Fig4CData.csv
• Fig4CSim.csv
• Fig4D.csv
• Fig4EData.csv
• Fig4EError.csv
• Fig4ESim.csv
• Fig4F.csv
• Fig4G.csv

Files are named according to the following naming convention: Fig'ASSOCIATED SUBFIGURE.csv'. See the explanation below:

'[ASSOCIATED SUBFIGURE]` references the subfigure of the manuscript where the data is plotted. This repository contains data from 'Fig1', 'Fig2', 'Fig3', and 'Fig4', which are the four figures containing experimental data. All of these figures contain sub-panels which are labeled alphabetically. For example, data from Fig. 2, panel C is referenced by 'Fig2C'. Two subfigures (Fig. 4, panel C and Fig. 4, panel E) compare simulation results to experimental data with 2-D datasets, so the simulation, experimental data, and errors on the experimental data are separated into different files for these subfigures (with 'Data', 'Sim', or 'Error' appended to the filename, respectively).

For one-dimensional data:

Data in each file is separated into columns. They represent x, y-coordinate value of each data point or corresponding error bars. They are labeled according to the following naming convention: '[PARAMETER]_[COORDINATE/ERRORBAR]'. See the explanation below:

'[PARAMETER]' refers to the parameter distinguishing different traces in a subfigure. For all the simulation results presented in the paper, '[PARAMETER]_[COORDINATE/ERRORBAR]' is further appended by '_sim'. For example, in Fig. 3, panel B, there are three different traces: the experimental data for g(2)(tau), the 'linear scatterer' simulation, and the MCWF simulation of g(2)(tau). These are labeled as g2_x, g2_y, LinearScat_x_sim, LinearScat_y_sim, MCWFg2_x_sim, MCWFg2_y_sim.

'[COORDINATE/ERRORBAR]' denotes the x, y-coordinates of the data or the associated error bars. Concretely, 3 types of data are recorded:

• x: x-coordinate of the data in that trace.
• y: y-coordinate of the data in that trace.
• yerror: error bars associated with each y-data point in that trace.

For two-dimensional data:

Data in each file is arranged in a two-dimensional array. Each of these arrays is a normalized two-dimensional histogram of photon detection times. The first row and first column designate the center of the time bins that are used in the histogram, corresponding to the x and y axes of the plot in the figure.

The data is expressed in the same units present in the figures. For completeness, we describe the units here:

• All detuning frequencies are recorded in 'MHz'.
• Temperature is recorded in 'C'.
• Vapor pressure is recorded in 'mTorr'.
• Fractional transmission is normalized to '[0,1]'.
• Photon detection/correlation times t are recorded in units of 'ns'.
• Correlation functions such as g(2) and g(3) are unitless.
• Effective atom number Neff is unitless.
• Fluorescence is recorded in 'nW'.
• All error bars represent the standard error of the mean for the relevant quantity.

Code/software

Figures were generated and data processing was done using Python. Simulations were performed using QuTiP. All data can be opened in any program that can open a .csv file, such as Microsoft Excel.