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Intense light-matter interaction largely relies on the use of high-power light sources, creating fields comparable to, or even stronger than, the field keeping the electrons bound in atoms. Under such conditions, the interaction induces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 P. Stammer , J. Rivera-Dean , P. Tzallas , M. F. Ciappina , M. Lewenstein

In this work we develop an experimental procedure to interrogate the single- and multiphoton scattering matrices of an unknown quantum system interacting with propagating photons. Our proposal requires coherent state laser or microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Tomás Ramos , Juan José García-Ripoll

The random laser action with coherent feedback by second-harmonic generation (SHG) was experimentally demonstrated in this paper. Compared with the conventional random laser action based on photoluminescence effect, which needs strong…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-24 Yanqi Qiao , Yuanlin Zheng , Zengyan Cai , Xianfeng Chen

We investigate surface plasmon amplification in a silver nanoparticle coupled to an externally driven three-level gain medium, and show that quantum coherence significantly enhances the generation of surface plasmons. Surface plasmon…

Generation of odd harmonics by a super strong focused laser beam in vacuum is considered. The process occurs due to the plural light-by-light scattering effect. In the leading order of perturbation theory, generation of $(2k+1)$th harmonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. M. Fedotov , N. B. Narozhny

Vacuum polarization, a key prediction of quantum theory, can cause a variety of intriguing phenomena that can be triggered by high-intensity laser pulses. The Heisenberg-Euler theory of the quantum vacuum supplements Maxwell's theory of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-28 Andreas Lindner , Baris Ölmez , Hartmut Ruhl

Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering is a widely used imaging technique that provides chemical contrast without the need for labels, making it an extremely valuable tool in physics, chemistry, and biology. In this work, we explore its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Giacomo Sorelli , Manuel Gessner , Frank Schlawin

We theoretically propose a multidimensional high-harmonic echo spectroscopy technique which utilizes strong optical fields to resolve coherent electron dynamics spanning an energy range of multiple electron Volts. Using our recently…

Quantum synchronization has been a central topic in quantum nonlinear dynamics. Despite rapid development in this field, very few have studied how to efficiently boost synchronization. Homodyne measurement emerges as one of the successful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Yuan Shen , Hong Yi Soh , Weijun Fan , Leong-Chuan Kwek

Quantum entanglement generation is generally known to be impossible by any classical means. According to Poisson statistics, coherent photons are not considered quantum particles due to the bunching phenomenon. Recently, a coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 B. S. Ham

Quantum superposition of high-dimensional states enables both computational speed-up and security in cryptographic protocols. However, the exponential complexity of tomographic processes makes certification of these properties a challenging…

Photon correlations are a cornerstone of Quantum Optics. Recent works [NJP 15 025019, 033036 (2013), PRA 90 052111 (2014)] have shown that by keeping track of the frequency of the photons, rich landscapes of correlations are revealed.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Gonzalez-Tudela , E. del Valle , F. P. Laussy

Cavity QED experiments are natural hosts for non-equilibrium phases of matter supported by photon-mediated interactions. In this work, we consider a cavity QED simulation of the BCS model of superfluidity, by studying regimes where the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-02 Shane P. Kelly , James K. Thompson , Ana Maria Rey , Jamir Marino

Recent technological advances allowed the coherent optical manipulation of high-energy electron wavepackets with attosecond precision. Here we theoretically investigate the collision of optically-modulated pulsed electron beams with atomic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Yuya Morimoto , Peter Hommelhoff , Lars Bojer Madsen

Over the last couple of decades, quantum simulators have been probing quantum many-body physics with unprecedented levels of control. So far, the main focus has been on the access to novel observables and dynamical conditions related to…

The dynamics of an electronic Dirac wave packet evolving under the influence of an ultra-intense laser pulse and an ensemble of highly charged ions is investigated numerically. Special emphasis is placed on the evolution of quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Guido R. Mocken , Christoph H. Keitel

Coherent light sources, such as free electron lasers, provide bright beams for biology, chemistry, physics, and advanced technological applications. Increasing the brightness of these sources requires progressively larger devices, with the…

The existence of electronic coherence can fundamentally change the scenario of nonlinear interaction of light with quantum systems such as atoms and molecules, which, however, has escaped from observation in the investigations of strong…

We show that the quantum interference between downconverted photon pairs and photons from coherent laser light can produce a maximally path entangled N-photon output component with a fidelity greater than 90% for arbitrarily high photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-01 Holger F. Hofmann , Takafumi Ono

We consider the possibility of an experimental proof of vacuum e+e- pair creation in the focus of two counter-propagating optical laser beams with an intensity of the order of 10^20 - 10^22 W/cm^2. Our approach is based on the collisionless…