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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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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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Radeonychev YV, Khairulin IR, Vagizov FG, Scully M, Kocharovskaya O. Observation of Acoustically Induced Transparency for γ-Ray Photons. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 124:163602. [PMID: 32383930 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.124.163602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2019] [Accepted: 04/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We report an observation of a 148-fold suppression of resonant absorption of 14.4 keV photons from exp(-5.2) to exp(-0.2) with preservation of their spectral and temporal characteristics in an ensemble of the resonant two-level ^{57}Fe nuclei at room temperature. The transparency was induced via collective acoustic oscillations of nuclei. The proposed technique allows extending the concept of induced optical transparency to a hard x-ray or γ-ray range and paves the way for acoustically controllable interface between x-ray or γ-ray photons and nuclear ensembles, advancing the field of x-ray or γ-ray quantum optics.
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- Y V Radeonychev
- Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
- Kazan E.K. Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute of the Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 10/7 Sibirsky tract, Kazan 420029, Russia
- N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 23 Gagarin Avenue, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
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- Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 46 Ulyanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
- N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, 23 Gagarin Avenue, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
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- Kazan E.K. Zavoisky Physical-Technical Institute of the Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 10/7 Sibirsky tract, Kazan 420029, Russia
- Kazan Federal University, 18 Kremlyovskaya Street, Kazan 420008, Russia
- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Studies and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Studies and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Studies and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA
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Vagizov F, Antonov V, Radeonychev YV, Shakhmuratov RN, Kocharovskaya O. Coherent control of the waveforms of recoilless γ-ray photons. Nature 2014; 508:80-3. [PMID: 24670656 DOI: 10.1038/nature13018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2013] [Accepted: 01/13/2014] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The concepts and ideas of coherent, nonlinear and quantum optics have been extended to photon energies in the range of 10-100 kiloelectronvolts, corresponding to soft γ-ray radiation (the term used when the radiation is produced in nuclear transitions) or, equivalently, hard X-ray radiation (the term used when the radiation is produced by electron motion). The recent experimental achievements in this energy range include the demonstration of parametric down-conversion in the Langevin regime, electromagnetically induced transparency in a cavity, the collective Lamb shift, vacuum-assisted generation of atomic coherences and single-photon revival in nuclear absorbing multilayer structures. Also, realization of single-photon coherent storage and stimulated Raman adiabatic passage were recently proposed in this regime. More related work is discussed in a recent review. However, the number of tools for the coherent manipulation of interactions between γ-ray photons and nuclear ensembles remains limited. Here we suggest and implement an efficient method to control the waveforms of γ-ray photons coherently. In particular, we demonstrate the conversion of individual recoilless γ-ray photons into a coherent, ultrashort pulse train and into a double pulse. Our method is based on the resonant interaction of γ-ray photons with an ensemble of nuclei with a resonant transition frequency that is periodically modulated in time. The frequency modulation, which is achieved by a uniform vibration of the resonant absorber, owing to the Doppler effect, renders resonant absorption and dispersion both time dependent, allowing us to shape the waveforms of the incident γ-ray photons. We expect that this technique will lead to advances in the emerging fields of coherent and quantum γ-ray photon optics, providing a basis for the realization of γ-ray-photon/nuclear-ensemble interfaces and quantum interference effects at nuclear γ-ray transitions.
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- Farit Vagizov
- 1] Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA [2] Kazan Federal University, Kazan 420008, Russia [3] Kazan Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan 420029, Russia
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- 1] Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA [2] Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia [3] N.I. Lobachevsky State University, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
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- 1] Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA [2] Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia [3] N.I. Lobachevsky State University, Nizhny Novgorod 603950, Russia
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- 1] Kazan Federal University, Kazan 420008, Russia [2] Kazan Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kazan 420029, Russia
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute for Quantum Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA
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Radeonychev YV, Polovinkin VA, Kocharovskaya O. Extremely short pulses via stark modulation of the atomic transition frequencies. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2010; 105:183902. [PMID: 21231106 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.105.183902] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We propose a universal method to produce extremely short pulses of electromagnetic radiation in various spectral ranges. The essence of the method is a resonant interaction of radiation with atoms under the conditions of adiabatic periodic modulation of atomic transition frequencies by a far-off-resonant control laser field via dynamic Stark shift of the atomic levels and proper adjustment of the control field intensity and frequency, as well as the optical depth of the medium. The potential of the method is illustrated by an example in a hydrogenlike atomic system.
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- Y V Radeonychev
- Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Science, 46 Ulyanov Street, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
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Wu Y, Yang X. Strong-coupling theory of periodically driven two-level systems. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2007; 98:013601. [PMID: 17358474 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.013601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2006] [Revised: 09/29/2006] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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We present a simple but highly efficient iterating approach for strong-coupling periodically driven two-level systems. The obtained explicit approximating analytical solution reproduces accurately the exact numerical solution in the strong-coupling regime for a wide frequency range including resonance, far-off resonance, harmonic, and subharmonic cases. Our theory is suitable for single- and multi-period periodic driving and for the periodic driving with a few-cycle pulse as well, and it gives a general formula for calculating the strong-field ac Stark effect in such diverse situations.
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- Ying Wu
- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, PR China
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