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Two-photon emission of an electron in an electromagnetic plane wave of vanishing frequency is calculated. The unpolarised probability is split into a two-step process, which is shown to be exactly equal to an integration over polarised…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-15 B. King

The electron-positron annihilation into two photons is a standard technology in medicine to observe e.g. metabolic processes in human bodies. A new tomograph will provide the possibility to observe not only direct $e^+ e^-$ annihilations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 B. C. Hiesmayr , P. Moskal

We estimate the energy distribution of positrons produced in the interaction of ultra-relativistic electrons with a high-intensity laser beam. The underlying trident process is factorized on the probabilistic level. That is, we deploy a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 A. I. Titov , U. Hernandez Acosta , B. Kampfer

Entangled quantum particles have correlations stronger than those allowed by classical physics. These correlations are the focus of of the deepest issues in quantum mechanics [1-3] and are the basis of many quantum technologies. The…

Photon entanglement is an essential ingredient for linear optics quantum computing schemes, quantum cryptographic protocols and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics. Here we describe a setup that allows for the generation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuan Liang Lim , Almut Beige

Based on the quantum electrodynamics, we present a generic formalism of the polarization for beamed monochromatic photons scattered by electrons in any spectral distribution. The formulae reduce to the components of the Fano matrix when…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-07 Zhe Chang , Yunguo Jiang , Hai-Nan Lin

Polarized and unpolarized observables in the process of the triplet photoproduction on a free electron, $\gamma +e\to e+e+e$, have been calculated in the laboratory system. These observables are calculated in the approximation when the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-14 G. I. Gakh , M. I. Konchatnij , N. P. Merenkov

We investigate the change of entanglement of photons due to propagation. We find that post-selected entanglement in general varies by propagation and, as a consequence, states with maximum bi- and tri-partite entanglement can be generated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-04 H. Hossein-Nejad , R. Stock , D. F. V. James

We present the experimental observation of polarization entanglement for three spatially separated photons. Such states of more than two entangled particles, known as GHZ states, play a crucial role in fundamental tests of quantum mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dik Bouwmeester , Jian-Wei Pan , Matthew Daniell , Harald Weinfurter , Anton Zeilinger

We investigate the generation of an entangled electron pair emerging from a system composed of two quantum dots attached to a superconductor Cooper pair beam splitter. We take into account three processes: Crossed Andreev Reflection,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 B. Sharmila , F. M. Souza , H. M. Vasconcelos , L. Sanz

We lay down a general scheme to quantify the amount of genuine tripartite entanglement present in the spatial and energy-time degrees of freedom of entangled photon triplets using a resource-based measure known as the tripartite…

Non-classical multi-photon and number states attracts many people because of their wide applications in fundamental quantum mechanics tests, quantum metrology and quantum computation, therefore it is a longstanding aim to generate such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-13 Dong-Sheng Ding , Wei Zhang , Shuai Shi , Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Yan Li , Bao-Sen Shi , Guang-Can Guo

The present work theoretically investigates the probability of generation of entangled electron-photon pair in high-energy Compton scattering of unpolarized electrons and photons due to scattering-channel-exchange mechanism. The study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-15 Basudev Nag Chowdhury , Sanatan Chattopadhyay

Photons preferentially Compton scatter perpendicular to the plane of polarisation. This property can be exploited to design instruments to measure the linear polarisation of hard X-rays ($\sim$10 - 100 keV). Photons may undergo two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-01-25 Ettore Del Monte , Sergio Fabiani , Mark Pearce

The possibility in principle of the determining high energy photon circular polarization by the measurement of the created electron polarization in the process of triplet photoproduction $\gamma +e^-\rightarrow e^+e^- +e^-$ is investigated.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 G. I. Gakh , M. I. Konchatnij , I. S. Levandovsky , N. P. Merenkov

In this work we suggest an original, realistic and simple, form of the experiment of interference of single photon at beam splitter. Here quantum entanglement (Schrodinger cat effect) between photon and photon trajectories detector (which…

General Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Vladan Pankovic

Traditional textbook explanations of the Compton effect treat the photon electron interaction as a particle collision. This explanation is a pedagogical disaster, implying that sometimes interactions are particle-like whereas quantum…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Oscar F. Hernandez

The square of the four momentum of a photon in vacuum is zero. However, in an unmagnetized plasma it is equal to the square of the plasma frequency. Further, the electron-photon coupling vertex is modified in a plasma to include the effect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vinod Krishan

The paper deals with kinematic conditions for the inverse Compton scattering of photons by relativistic electrons and the polarizations of the colliding particles, which affect the value of the differential cross section of the process. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-06 Kirill Bornikov , Igor Volobuev , Yuri Popov

The electromagnetic processes of Compton scattering and photon splitting/merging are investigated in the presence of strongly magnetized electron-positron plasma. The influence of these processes on the radiation transfer in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-01 M. V. Chistyakov , D. A. Rumyantsev