Continuous variable quantum state tomography of photoelectrons
Atomic Physics
2022-12-01 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We propose a continuous variable quantum state tomography protocol of electrons which result from the ionization of atoms or molecules by the absorption of extreme ultraviolet light pulses. Our protocol is benchmarked against a direct calculation of the quantum state of photoelectrons ejected from helium and argon in the vicinity of a Fano resonance. In the latter case, we furthermore distill ion-photoelectron entanglement due to spin-orbit splitting. This opens new routes towards the investigation of quantum coherence and entanglement properties on the ultrafast timescale.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2202.06798,
title = {Continuous variable quantum state tomography of photoelectrons},
author = {Hugo Laurell and Daniel Finkelstein-Shapiro and Christoph Dittel and Chen Guo and Ron Demjaha and Mattias Ammitzböll and Robin Weissenbilder and Lana Neoričić and Sizuo Luo and Mathieu Gisselbrecht and Cord Arnold and Andreas Buchleitner and Tönu Pullerits and Anne L'Huillier and David Busto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.06798},
year = {2022}
}