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A method to create paired atom laser beams from a metastable helium atom laser via four-wave mixing is demonstrated. Radio frequency outcoupling is used to extract atoms from a Bose Einstein condensate near the center of the condensate and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. G. Dall , L. J. Byron , A. G. Truscott , G. R. Dennis , M. T. Johnsson , J. J. Hope

Twisted photons are not plane waves, but superpositions of plane waves with a defined projection hbar m of the orbital angular momentum onto the propagation axis (m is integer and may attain values m >> 1). Here, we describe in detail the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2012-06-29 U. D. Jentschura , V. G. Serbo

The continuous development of bright x/gamma-ray sources has opened up new frontiers of science and advanced applications. Currently, there is still a lack of efficient approaches to produce gamma-rays with photon energies up to GeV and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-23 Xing-Long Zhu , Min Chen , Zheng-Ming Sheng

Cylindrical vector (CV) gamma rays can introduce spatially structured polarization as a new degree of freedom for fundamental research and practical applications. However, their generation and control remain largely unexplored. Here, we put…

The radiation of twisted photons by undulators filled with a homogeneous dielectric dispersive medium is considered. The general formulas for the average number of radiated twisted photons are obtained. The radiation of undulators in the…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2020-11-16 O. V. Bogdanov , P. O. Kazinski , G. Yu. Lazarenko

We propose that repeated photoexcitation/ionization of high Z atoms of highly relativistic flows by star light in dense stellar regions followed by emission of decay/recombination photons, which are beamed and boosted to gamma ray energies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Nir J. Shaviv , Arnon Dar

The ability of an intense laser pulse to propagate in a classically over-critical plasma through the phenomenon of relativistic transparency is shown to facilitate the generation of strong plasma magnetic fields. Particle-in-cell…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Oliver Jansen , Tao Wang , David Stark , Toma Toncian , Alexey Arefiev

We propose a new method of producing neutrino pair beam that consists of a mixture of neutrinos and anti-neutrinos of all flavors. The idea is based on a coherent neutrino pair emission from excited ions in circular motion. High energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 M. Yoshimura , N. Sasao

We discuss a mechanism of generating two separable beams of light with high degree of entanglement in momentum using a fast and sharp optical boundary. Three regimes of light generation are identified depending on the number of resonant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-10 A. Guerreiro , A. Ferreira , J. T. Mendonça

We present results of twisted plasma waves driven by twisted ponderomotive force. With beating of two, co-propagating, Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) orbital angular momentum (OAM) laser pulses with different frequencies and also different twist…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Yin Shi , D. R. Blackman , R. J. Kingham , A. V. Arefiev

The interaction between an ultrastrong laser and a cone-like target is an efficient approach to generate high power radiations like attosecond pulses and terahertz waves. The object is to study the $\gamma$-ray generation under this…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Cui-Wen Zhang , Yi-Xuan Zhu , Jian-Feng Lv , Bai-Song Xie

We show that light spiraling like a tornado can be generated by superimposing abruptly auto-focusing ring-Airy beams that carry orbital angular momentum of opposite handedness. With different parabolic propagation trajectories, the…

We develop a simple model and propose a scheme that allows the production of twisted atoms in free space using the absorption of twisted photons by a bound electron. We show that in the inelastic collision of a photon and an atom, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 S. S. Baturin , A. V. Volotka

We present analytically and numerically the spectrum of high harmonic emission generated by twisted electrons in the presence of linearly polarized light. Ensuing transitions from electronic continuum states with orbital angular momentum to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Sebastian Gemsheim , Jan-Michael Rost

The generation of relativistic vortex electron beams via photoemission requires ultraviolet laser beams with well-controlled orbital angular momentum (OAM) and compatibility with radio-frequency (RF) photoinjector drive-laser systems.…

Strong laser-driven magnetic fields are crucial for high-energy-density physics and laboratory astrophysics research, but generation of axial multi-kT fields remains a challenge. The difficulty comes from the inability of a conventional…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-26 Yin Shi , Alexey Arefiev , Jue Xuan Hao , Jian Zheng

We present analytical and simulation study of twisted terahertz (THz) radiation generation via propagation of a circularly polarized Laguerre Gaussian (LG) laser pulse in homogeneous plasma embedded in an axial magnetic field. Analytical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-11 Dinkar Mishra , Saumya Singh , Bhupesh Kumar , Pallavi Jha

Circularly polarized (CP) $\gamma$-ray sources are versatile for broad applications in nuclear physics, high-energy physics and astrophysics. The laser-plasma based particle accelerators provide accessibility for much higher flux…

A method to temporally tailor the properties of X-ray radiation carrying Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) is presented. In simulations, an electron beam is prepared with a temporally modulated micro-bunching structure which, when radiating at…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 J. Morgan , B. W. J. McNeil

Within the framework of quantum electrodynamics, a new method for calculating the radiation of a twisted photon emitted at any angle to the particle velocity has been developed. Using this method, the theory of radiation of a twisted photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 K. B. Korotchenko , Y. P. Kunashenko