Quantum control of entangled photon-pair generation in electron-atom collisions driven by laser-synthesized free-electron wave packets

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09649v3
• Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 16:26:52 GMT
• Title: Quantum control of entangled photon-pair generation in electron-atom collisions driven by laser-synthesized free-electron wave packets
• Authors: R. Esteban Goetz and Klaus Bartschat
• Abstract summary: We propose an extension of coherent control using laser-synthesized free-electron matter waves. We report coherent control of entangled photon-pair generation in radiative photo-cascade emission upon decay of the target atom.
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• Abstract: We propose an extension of coherent control using laser-synthesized free-electron matter waves. In contrast to coherent control schemes exploiting optical coherences to steer the dynamics of matter waves, we analyze the opposite and investigate the control of quantum light emission driven by laser-sculpted coherent free-electron matter waves. We apply this concept to the control of entangled photon-pair emission in electron-atom collisions, in which the incident electron wave packet, colliding with a target atom $B$, is engineered by interferometric resonantly-enhanced multiphoton ionization of a parent atom $A$. Each ionization pathway leads to electron wave packets that coherently interfere during temporal evolution in the continuum. Their mutual coherence can be controlled by adjusting the relative phases or time delays of the frequency components of the ionizing field contributing to the interfering pathways. We report coherent control of entangled photon-pair generation in radiative photo-cascade emission upon decay of the target atom after inelastic excitation triggered by the collision with the synthesized electron wave packet.

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