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Within the framework of QED, spectral-angular distribution of the twisted photons emitted by relativistic electrons during axial channeling were investigated.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 K. B. Korotchenko , Y. P. Kunashenko

A weak measurement approach is proposed to entangle and squeeze atoms. We show that even for very small coupling strength between light and atoms, one can achieve large squeezing unattainable with normal measurement-based squeezing.…

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Photo-absorption in fully ionized plasmas in high magnetic fields is re-examined, using the methods of many-body quantum field theory. For frequencies in the immediate vicinity of the electron cyclotron resonance the rates we obtain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-07 R. F. Sawyer

We examine theoretically the intersubband transitions induced by laser beams of light with orbital angular momentum (twisted light) in semiconductor quantum wells at normal incidence. These transitions become possible in the absence of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-09 B. Sbierski , G. F. Quinteiro , P. I. Tamborenea

In optical pumping of rubidium, a new kind of absorption occurs with a higher amplitude of radio frequency current. From measurement of the corresponding magnetic field value where this absorption occurs, there is a conclusion that it is…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-25 Xinyi Xu

We consider photo ionization of an atom which, due to passing through a diffraction grating, is prepared in a multi-site state possessing a periodic space structure with alternating maxima and minima. It has been found that this process…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-08-07 S. F. Zhang , B. Najjari , X. Ma , A. B. Voitkiv

This paper introduces and reviews light forces, atom cooling and atom trapping. The emphasis is on the physics of the basic processes. In discussing conservative forces the semi-classical dressed states are used rather than the usual…

atom-ph · Physics 2015-06-24 Craig Savage

Twisted photons carrying orbital angular momentum, which have potential applications spanning diverse fields, have been extensively studied since the theoretical work of Allen \textit{et al}. in 1992. Various methods for direct producing…

A number of emission and absorption features are expected to be visible in high energy resolution X-ray spectra of type 1 AGN with ionized gas along the line of sight (so called "warm absorbers"). Emission strongly depends on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Nicastro , F. Fiore , G. Matt

The effects resulting from the introduction of a controlled perturbation in a single pattern membrane on its absorption are first studied and then analyzed on the basis of band folding considerations. The interest of this approach for…

We propose and demonstrate an experimental implementation for the observation of magnetic fields from spatial features of absorption profiles in a warm atomic vapor. A radially polarized vector beam that traverses an atomic vapor will…

We have performed detailed photoluminescence (PL) and absorption spectroscopy on the same single self-assembled quantum dot in a charge-tunable device. The transition from neutral to charged exciton in the PL occurs at a more negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Seidl , M. Kroner , P. A. Dalgarno , A. Högele , J. M. Smith , M. Ediger , B. D. Gerardot , J. M. Garcia , P. M. Petroff , K. Karrai , R. J. Warburton

A new modeling way of describing the continuous absorption of electromagnetic (EM) radiation in dense partially ionized hydrogen plasma is tested in this work. It is shown that the obtained results give a possibility of calculating spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-14 A. A. Mihajlov , N M Sakan , V. A. Sreckovic , Y. Vitel

The squeezed photons, as a quantum-correlated light with reduced noise, have emerged as a great resource for sensing the structures of matter. Here we study the transient absorption (TA) scheme using the squeezed photons whose spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Jiahao Joel Fan , Feihong Liu , Dangyuan Lei , Zhedong Zhang

We consider a coherent state of light propagating through an ensemble of two-level atoms where all the atoms are initially in their ground state. In ordinary absorption, the transition of atoms to their excited state along with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 I. C. Nodurft , R. A. Brewster , T. B. Pittman , J. D. Franson

Photons with a helical phase front (twisted photons) can carry a discrete, in principle, unbounded amount of orbital angular momentum (OAM). Twisted single-photons have been demonstrated as a high-dimensional quantum system with information…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-26 Bo Chen , Yuming Wei , Tianming Zhao , Shunfa Liu , Beimeng Yao , Ying Yu , Jin Liu , Xue-hua Wang

Absorption measurement is an exceptionally versatile tool for many applications in science and engineering. For absorption measurements using laser beams of light, the sensitivity is theoretically limited by the shot noise due to the…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-22 Fu Li , Tian Li , Marlan O. Scully , Girish S. Agarwal

The radiation of photons by electrons is investigated in the framework of quantum electrodynamics up to the second order in the coupling constant $e$. The $N$-particle, coherent, and thermal initial states are considered and the forms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-08 P. O. Kazinski , T. V. Solovyev

A chain of cofacial molecules with CN or CNh symmetry supports excitonic states with a screw-like structure. These can be quantified with the combination of an axial wavenumber and an azimuthal winding number. Combinations of these states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-11 Xiaoning Zang , Mark T. Lusk

We theoretically show that a single free electron in circular/spiral motion radiates an electromagnetic wave possessing helical phase structure and carrying orbital angular momentum. We experimentally demonstrate it by double-slit…