Abstract
We compare the statistics of photon counts of the light scattered by a laser-driven two-level system weakly coupled to a third metastable state with the statistics of a dichotomic Markov process. The fluorescence is found to turn abrubtly off and on, as if the atom executed quantum jumps to and from the metastable state. Moreover, the jumping nature of the fluorescence over long time scales survives even though the atom cannot be treated with rate theory and the picture of instantaneous quantum jumps is not strictly justified.
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