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The quantum beat phenomenon due to polaritons has been studied in III-V and IV-IV band gap materials doped with a four-level atom. There is a band gap in the polariton spectrum in these semiconductors due to the coupling of photons and optical phonons. The atom is prepared in such way that it is in top two excited states and emits spontaneously two polaritons with different resonance frequencies....