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Comment on Kuwahara et al., Intensity Interference in a Coherent Spin-Polarized Electron Beam, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 125501 (2021)

Quantum Physics 2021-12-08 v1

Abstract

The claim that Kuwahara et al. [1] have reported the observation of a Hanbury Brown-Twiss electron antibunching dip (their Fig. 3) could possibly be explained as an electron source emission rate dependency on the light polarization. Strain on their GaAs/GaAsP sample is uniaxial, and one would expect a linear dichroism in the photoemission possibly as large as 15% [7] - much larger than the 0.1% reported effect. The same concern exist for circular polarized light.

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@article{arxiv.2111.02890,
  title  = {Comment on Kuwahara et al., Intensity Interference in a Coherent Spin-Polarized Electron Beam, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 125501 (2021)},
  author = {Herman Batelaan and Sam Keramati and T. J. Gay},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.02890},
  year   = {2021}
}

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