Coherent control of nuclear forward scattering

DOI10.1080/09500340.2010.511720zbMATH Open1206.81022arXiv1003.3668OpenAlexW3101678496MaRDI QIDQ3072485FDOQ3072485

Authors: Adriana Pálffy, Jörg Evers 

Publication date: 3 February 2011

Published in: Journal of Modern Optics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The possibility to control the coherent decay of resonant excitations in nuclear forward scattering is investigated. By changing abruptly the direction of the nuclear hyperfine magnetic field, the coherent scattering of photons can be manipulated and even completely suppressed via quantum interference effects between the nuclear transition currents. The efficiency of the coherent decay suppression and the dependence of the scattered light polarization on the specific switching parameters is analyzed in detail. Using a sophisticated magnetic switching sequence involving four rotations of the hyperfine magnetic field, two correlated coherent decay pulses with different polarizations can be generated out of one excitation, providing single-photon entanglement in the keV regime. The verification of the generated entanglement by testing a single-particle version of Bell's inequality in an x-ray optics experimental setup is put forward.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.3668

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zbMATH Keywords

coherent controlsingle-photon entanglementmagnetic switchingentanglement testsnuclear forward scattering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Quantum optics (81V80) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Quantum control (81Q93)

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• Strong violations of Bell-type inequalities for path-entangled number states

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• Cooperative emission from nuclei: the collective Lamb shift and electromagnetically induced transparency
• Suppression of nuclear elastic forward scattering in experiments with trains of ultrashort pulses

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