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Velten S, Bocklage L, Zhang X, Schlage K, Panchwanee A, Sadashivaiah S, Sergeev I, Leupold O, Chumakov AI, Kocharovskaya O, Röhlsberger R. Nuclear quantum memory for hard x-ray photon wave packets. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2024; 10:eadn9825. [PMID: 38924415 PMCID: PMC11204287 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn9825] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2024] [Accepted: 05/21/2024] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
Abstract
Optical quantum memories are key elements in modern quantum technologies to reliably store and retrieve quantum information. At present, they are conceptually limited to the optical wavelength regime. Recent advancements in x-ray quantum optics render an extension of optical quantum memory protocols to ultrashort wavelengths possible, thereby establishing quantum photonics at x-ray energies. Here, we introduce an x-ray quantum memory protocol that utilizes mechanically driven nuclear resonant 57Fe absorbers to form a comb structure in the nuclear absorption spectrum by using the Doppler effect. This room-temperature nuclear frequency comb enables us to control the waveform of x-ray photon wave packets to a high level of accuracy and fidelity using solely mechanical motions. This tunable, robust, and highly flexible system offers a versatile platform for a compact solid-state quantum memory at room temperature for hard x-rays.
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- Sven Velten
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging CUI, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging CUI, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Institut Jena, Fraunhoferstr. 8, 07743 Jena, Germany
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstr. 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607 Hamburg, Germany
- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging CUI, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
- Helmholtz-Institut Jena, Fraunhoferstr. 8, 07743 Jena, Germany
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Planckstr. 1, 64291 Darmstadt, Germany
- Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
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He Y, Liu Z, Ott C, Pfeiffer AN, Sun S, Gaarde MB, Pfeifer T, Hu B. Resonant Perfect Absorption Yielded by Zero-Area Pulses. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 129:273201. [PMID: 36638297 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.273201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2022] [Revised: 08/11/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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We propose and study the manipulation of the macroscopic transient absorption of an ensemble of open two-level systems via temporal engineering. The key idea is to impose an ultrashort temporal gate on the polarization decay of the system by transient absorption spectroscopy, thus confining its free evolution and the natural reshaping of the excitation pulse. The numerical and analytical results demonstrate that even at moderate optical depths, the resonant absorption of light can be reduced or significantly enhanced by more than 5 orders of magnitude relative to that without laser manipulation. The achievement of the quasicomplete extinction of light at the resonant frequency, here referred to as resonant perfect absorption, arises from the full destructive interference between the excitation pulse and its subpulses developed and tailored during propagation, and is revealed to be connected with the formation of zero-area pulses in the time domain.
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- Yu He
- School of Nuclear Science and Technology and Frontiers Science Center for Rare Isotopes, Lanzhou University, 730000 Lanzhou, China
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology and Frontiers Science Center for Rare Isotopes, Lanzhou University, 730000 Lanzhou, China
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute of Optics and Quantum Electronics, Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology and Frontiers Science Center for Rare Isotopes, Lanzhou University, 730000 Lanzhou, China
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- School of Nuclear Science and Technology and Frontiers Science Center for Rare Isotopes, Lanzhou University, 730000 Lanzhou, China
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Nosik VL. Quantum Optics of Mössbauer Radiation. CRYSTALLOGR REP+ 2022. [DOI: 10.1134/s1063774522060190] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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Khairulin IR, Radeonychev YV, Kocharovskaya O. Slowing down x-ray photons in a vibrating recoilless resonant absorber. Sci Rep 2022; 12:20270. [PMID: 36434050 PMCID: PMC9700840 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-24114-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2022] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Recently, an observation of acoustically induced transparency (AIT) of a stainless-steel foil for resonant 14.4-keV photons from a radioactive 57Co Mössbauer source due to collective uniform oscillations of atomic nuclei was reported [Phys Rev Lett 124,163602, 2020]. In this paper, we propose to use the steep resonant dispersion of the absorber within the AIT spectral window to dramatically reduce a propagation velocity of γ-ray and x-ray photons. In particular, we show that a significant fraction (more than 40%) of a 97-ns γ-ray single-photon wave packet from a 57Co radioactive source can be slowed down up to 3 m/s and delayed by 144 ns in a 57Fe-enriched stainless-steel foil at room temperature. We also show that a similarly significant slowing down up to 24 m/s and a delay by 42 ns can be achieved for more than 70% of the 100-ns 14.4-keV x-ray single-photon pulse from a synchrotron Mössbauer source available at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) and Spring-8 facility. The propagation velocity can be widely controlled by changing the absorber vibration frequency. Achieving the propagation velocity on the order of 1-50 m/s would set a record in the hard x-ray range, comparable to what was obtained in the optical range.
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- I. R. Khairulin
- grid.410472.40000 0004 0638 0147Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia
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- grid.410472.40000 0004 0638 0147Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950 Russia
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- grid.264756.40000 0004 4687 2082Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242 USA
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Zhang C, Li P, Jiang J, von der Wense L, Doyle JF, Fermann ME, Ye J. Tunable VUV frequency comb for 229mTh nuclear spectroscopy. OPTICS LETTERS 2022; 47:5591-5594. [PMID: 37219278 DOI: 10.1364/ol.473006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2022] [Accepted: 10/10/2022] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Laser spectroscopy of the 229mTh nuclear clock transition is necessary for the future construction of a nuclear-based optical clock. Precision laser sources with broad spectral coverage in the vacuum ultraviolet are needed for this task. Here, we present a tunable vacuum-ultraviolet frequency comb based on cavity-enhanced seventh-harmonic generation. Its tunable spectrum covers the current uncertainty range of the 229mTh nuclear clock transition.
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Shvyd'ko Y, Schindelmann P. On yoctosecond science. Nature 2022; 608:E16-E17. [PMID: 35948725 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04870-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 05/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Yuri Shvyd'ko
- Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, lL, USA.
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- Dilg, Haeusler, Schindelmann Patentanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Munich, Germany
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Heeg KP, Bocklage L, Strohm C, Ott C, Lentrodt D, Haber J, Wille HC, Rüffer R, Gollwitzer J, Adolff CF, Schlage K, Sergeev I, Leupold O, Meier G, Keitel CH, Röhlsberger R, Pfeifer T, Evers J. Reply to: On yoctosecond science. Nature 2022; 608:E18-E19. [PMID: 35948703 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04871-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Kilian P Heeg
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.,The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl Quantenoptik, Department Physik, Fakultät IV, Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany
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- ESRF-The European Synchrotron, CS40220, Grenoble, France
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.,The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany
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- The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg, Germany.,Max-Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Hamburg, Germany.,Helmholtz-Institut Jena, Jena, Germany.,Institut für Optik und Quantenelektronik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany.
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He PL, Hatsagortsyan KZ, Keitel CH. Nondipole Time Delay and Double-Slit Interference in Tunneling Ionization. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:183201. [PMID: 35594091 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.183201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Revised: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 04/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Recently two-center interference in single-photon molecular ionization was employed to observe a zeptosecond time delay due to the photon propagation of the internuclear distance in a molecule [Grundmann et al., Science 370, 339 (2020)SCIEAS0036-807510.1126/science.abb9318]. We investigate the possibility of a comparable nondipole time delay in tunneling ionization and decode the emerged time delay signal. With the here newly developed Coulomb-corrected nondipole molecular strong-field approximation, we derive and analyze the photoelectron momentum distribution, the signature of nondipole effects, and the role of the degeneracy of the molecular orbitals. We show that the ejected electron momentum shifts and interference fringes efficiently imprint both the molecule structure and laser parameters. The corresponding nondipole time delay value significantly deviates from that in single-photon ionization. In particular, when the two-center interference in the molecule is destructive, the time delay is independent of the bond length. We also identify the double-slit interference in tunneling ionization of atoms with nonzero angular momentum via a nondipole momentum shift.
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- Pei-Lun He
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Walker PM. Isomers as a bridge between nuclear and atomic physics. Radiat Phys Chem Oxf Engl 1993 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.radphyschem.2022.110095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Lv QZ, Raicher E, Keitel CH, Hatsagortsyan KZ. High-Brilliance Ultranarrow-Band X Rays via Electron Radiation in Colliding Laser Pulses. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:024801. [PMID: 35089763 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.024801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2021] [Revised: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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A setup of a unique x-ray source is put forward employing a relativistic electron beam interacting with two counterpropagating laser pulses in the nonlinear few-photon regime. In contrast to Compton scattering sources, the envisaged x-ray source exhibits an extremely narrow relative bandwidth of the order of 10^{-4}, comparable with an x-ray free-electron laser. The brilliance of the x rays can be an order of magnitude higher than that of a state-of-the-art Compton source. By tuning the laser intensities and the electron energy, one can realize either a single peak or a comblike x-ray source of around keV energy. The laser intensity and the electron energy in the suggested setup are rather moderate, rendering this scheme compact and tabletop size, as opposed to x-ray free-electron laser and synchrotron infrastructures.
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- Q Z Lv
- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Soreq Nuclear Research Center, 81800 Yavne, Israel
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Saupfercheckweg 1, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
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Gu B, Cavaletto SM, Nascimento DR, Khalil M, Govind N, Mukamel S. Manipulating valence and core electronic excitations of a transition-metal complex using UV/Vis and X-ray cavities. Chem Sci 2021; 12:8088-8095. [PMID: 34194698 PMCID: PMC8208133 DOI: 10.1039/d1sc01774h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2021] [Accepted: 05/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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We demonstrate how optical cavities can be exploited to control both valence- and core-excitations in a prototypical model transition metal complex, ferricyanide ([Fe(iii)(CN)6]3-), in an aqueous environment. The spectroscopic signatures of hybrid light-matter polariton states are revealed in UV/Vis and X-ray absorption, and stimulated X-ray Raman signals. In an UV/Vis cavity, the absorption spectrum exhibits the single-polariton states arising from the cavity photon mode coupling to both resonant and off-resonant valence-excited states. We further show that nonlinear stimulated X-ray Raman signals can selectively probe the bipolariton states via cavity-modified Fe core-excited states. This unveils the correlation between valence polaritons and dressed core-excitations. In an X-ray cavity, core-polaritons are generated and their correlations with the bare valence-excitations appear in the linear and nonlinear X-ray spectra.
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- Bing Gu
- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Irvine CA 92697 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Irvine CA 92697 USA
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- Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland WA 99352 USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington Seattle WA USA
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- Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richland WA 99352 USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Irvine CA 92697 USA
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Khairulin IR, Radeonychev YV, Antonov VA, Kocharovskaya O. Acoustically induced transparency for synchrotron hard x-ray photons. Sci Rep 2021; 11:7930. [PMID: 33846377 PMCID: PMC8041895 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86555-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2020] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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The induced transparency of opaque medium for resonant electromagnetic radiation is a powerful tool for manipulating the field-matter interaction. Various techniques to make different physical systems transparent for radiation from microwaves to x-rays were implemented. Most of them are based on the modification of the quantum-optical properties of the medium under the action of an external coherent electromagnetic field. Recently, an observation of acoustically induced transparency (AIT) of the 57Fe absorber for resonant 14.4-keV photons from the radioactive 57Co source was reported. About 150-fold suppression of the resonant absorption of photons due to collective acoustic oscillations of the nuclei was demonstrated. In this paper, we extend the AIT phenomenon to a novel phase-locked regime, when the transmitted photons are synchronized with the absorber vibration. We show that the advantages of synchrotron Mössbauer sources such as the deterministic periodic emission of radiation and controlled spectral-temporal characteristics of the emitted photons along with high-intensity photon flux in a tightly focused beam, make it possible to efficiently implement this regime, paving the way for the development of the acoustically controlled interface between hard x-ray photons and nuclear ensembles.
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- I R Khairulin
- Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
- N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia.
- N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia.
- Kazan Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan, 420029, Russia.
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Institute for Quantum Studies and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-4242, USA
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