Single-Photon Entanglement in the keV Regime via Coherent Control of Nuclear Forward Scattering

Abstract

Generation of single-photon entanglement is discussed in nuclear forward scattering. Using successive switchings of the direction of the nuclear hyperfine magnetic field, the coherent scattering of photons on nuclei is controlled such that two signal pulses are generated out of one initial pump pulse. The two time-resolved correlated signal pulses have different polarizations and energy in the keV regime. Spatial separation of the entangled field modes and extraction of the signal from the background can be achieved with the help of state-of-the-art x-ray polarizers and piezoelectric fast steering mirrors.

arXiv commentminor changes, updated to the final version; 4 pages, 2 figures

References in corpus (11)

• Quantum Entanglement in Fermionic Lattices
• Quantum scissors: teleportation of single-mode optical states by means of a nonlocal single photon
• |0>|1>+|1>|0>
• Quantum Teleportation and Bell's Inequality Using Single-Particle Entanglement
• Nuclear quantum optics with x-ray laser pulses
• Quantum Entanglement of Identical Particles
• Isomer triggering via nuclear excitation by electron capture
• Electric dipole-forbidden nuclear transitions driven by super-intense laser fields
• Table-top creation of entangled multi-keV photon pairs via the Unruh effect
• Entanglement of photons
• Degree of entanglement as a physically ill-posed problem: The case of entanglement with vacuum

Cited by in corpus (33)

• Tunable sub-luminal propagation of narrowband x-ray pulses
• Coherent storage and phase modulation of single hard x-ray photons using nuclear excitons
• X-ray quantum optics with Mössbauer nuclei embedded in thin film cavities
• Polarization Entangled Photons at X-Ray Energies
• Transformation of a single photon field into bunches of pulses
• Alpha decay in intense laser fields: Calculations using realistic nuclear potentials
• Collective effects between multiple nuclear ensembles in an x-ray cavity-QED setup
• Ab initio quantum models for thin-film x-ray cavity QED
• Nuclear quantum memory and time sequencing of a single $\gamma$ photon
• Proposed Entanglement of X-ray Nuclear Polaritons as a Potential Method for Probing Matter at the Subatomic Scale
• Quantum enhanced X-ray detection
• Green function formalism for resonant interaction of x-rays with nuclei in structured media
• Direct and secondary nuclear excitation with x-ray free-electron lasers
• All-Electromagnetic Control of Broadband Quantum Excitations Using Gradient Photon Echoes
• Field control of single x-ray photons in nuclear forward scattering
• Magnetic Quantum-Phase Control between Two Entangled Macroscopic Nuclear Ensembles
• Efficient Interaction of Heralded X-ray Photons with a Beam Splitter
• Generation of short hard X-ray pulses of tailored duration using a Mössbauer source
• Superradiant control of gamma-ray propagation by vibrating nuclear arrays
• On the feasibility of a nuclear exciton laser
• Coherent control of the cooperative branching ratio for nuclear x-ray pumping
• Quantum interference effects in an ensemble of ${}^{229}$Th nuclei interacting with coherent light
• Coherent control of nuclear forward scattering
• Probing few-excitation eigenstates of interacting atoms on a lattice by observing their collective light emission in the far field
• Photon scattering from strongly driven atomic ensembles
• Temporal dynamics of stimulated emission with applications in nuclear quantum optics
• Time-Delayed Magnetic Control and Narrowing of X-Ray frequency Spectra in Two-Target Nuclear Forward Scattering
• Coherent x-ray-optical control of nuclear excitons with zeptosecond phase-stability
• Storage and manipulation of single x-ray photons via nuclear hyperfine splitting
• Towards Flexible Intensity Control of Resonantly Scattered $\gamma$-Rays Using Multi-Frequency Vibrating Resonant Absorber
• X-ray-frequency modulation via periodic switching of an external magnetic field
• Backaction-free measurement of quantum correlations via quantum time-domain interferometry
• Producing entangled photon pairs and quantum squeezed states in plasmas