Quantum Entanglement in Electron Optics: Generation, Characterization, and Applications

✍ Scribed by N. Chandra, R. Ghosh (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Series: Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics 67
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This monograph forms an interdisciplinary study in atomic, molecular, and quantum information (QI) science. Here a reader will find that applications of the tools developed in QI provide new physical insights into electron optics as well as properties of atoms & molecules which, in turn, are useful in studying QI both at fundamental and applied levels. In particular, this book investigates entanglement properties of flying electronic qubits generated in some of the well known processes capable of taking place in an atom or a molecule following the absorption of a photon. Here, one can generate Coulombic or fine-structure entanglement of electronic qubits. The properties of these entanglements differ not only from each other, but also from those when spin of an inner-shell photoelectron is entangled with the polarization of the subsequent fluorescence. Spins of an outer-shell electron and of a residual photoion can have free or bound entanglement in a laboratory.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction and Preliminaries....Pages 1-11
Quantum Information: Basic Relevant Concepts and Applications....Pages 13-46
Theory....Pages 47-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Coulombic Entanglement: One-Step Single Photoionization of Atoms....Pages 93-112
Coulombic Entanglement: One-Step Double Photoionization of Atoms....Pages 113-133
Coulombic Entanglement: Two-Step Double Photoionization of Atoms....Pages 135-148
Fine-Structure Entanglement: Bipartite States of Flying Particles with Rest Mass Different from Zero....Pages 149-178
Bipartite States of Photonic and Flying Electronic Qubits....Pages 179-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
One-Step Double Photoionization of Molecules....Pages 201-217
Two-Step Double Photoionization of Molecules....Pages 219-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Conclusions and Prospectives....Pages 241-249
Back Matter....Pages 251-301

✦ Subjects

Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics;Mathematical Methods in Physics;Quantum Physics