{"title":"Charge exchange of slow highly charged ions from an electron beam ion trap with surfaces and 2D materials","authors":"A Niggas, M Werl, F Aumayr, R A Wilhelm","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad2e2a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad2e2a","url":null,"abstract":"Electron beam ion traps allow studies of slow highly charged ion transmission through freestanding 2D materials as an universal testbed for surface science under extreme conditions. Here we review recent studies on charge exchange of highly charged ions in 2D materials. Since the interaction time with these atomically thin materials is limited to only a few femtoseconds, an indirect timing information will be gained. We will therefore discuss the interaction separated in three participating time regimes: energy deposition (charge exchange), energy release (secondary particle emission), and energy retention (material modification).","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140316162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cavity output field nonreciprocal control via interference effects","authors":"Yang Zhang, Yu-bo Ma, Hongyi Zhu, Chang-shui Yu","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad34a1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad34a1","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We propose a scheme to investigate the coherent control of the output field in an asymmetrical cavity with and without atom-interaction. We show that the system displays the phenomena of non- reciprocal opacity, and the cavity spatial symmetry broken is the sufficient and necessary condition to achieve the nonreciprocal opacity when the relative phase of input fields is vanished. Moreover, we also include the effect of relative phase produced by incoming fields and show how it realizes and modifies the nonreciprocal opacity in a symmetrical cavity. As a key result, we find that either the participation of atom-cavity interaction or relative phase can promote the nonreciprocal opacity into a wider operating regime. Our findings show that although nonreciprocal opacity is analogy of optical diode effect and our system behaves like an optical isolator, it still can be operated in both forward or backward directions simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140240442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interference effects in Compton scattering of keV photons at H+2 : a nonrelativistic analytical approach","authors":"M. Dieng, H. Bachau","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad34a3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad34a3","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this paper we study interference effects in Compton scattering at molecule by keV photons. As a test case we investigate the molecular system H2+ at the equilibrium internuclear distance and in the dissociative channel. The initial molecular wavefunction is described as a linear combination of atomic orbitals centered on each nucleus. The final continuum state is a two-centre continuum Coulomb wavefunction. Using these approximations, we obtain an analytical form for the Compton scattering fully differential cross section. We investigate the molecular effects at various internuclear distance for an incident photon energy close to 2.1 keV. The relative contribution of the A⋅P and A2 coupling terms in the Compton scattering magnitude is discussed (where P is the electron momentum operator and A the vector potential of the field). We focus on Cohen-Fano type interference effects, as the ones observed in the photoionization of molecules.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140238334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. O. Herdrich, D. Hengstler, S. Allgeier, Marvin Friedrich, A. Fleischmann, C. Enss, Sonja Bernitt, T. Morgenroth, S. Trotsenko, Reinhold Schuch, Thomas Stöhlker
{"title":"Application of a metallic-magnetic calorimeter for high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy of Fe at an EBIT","authors":"M. O. Herdrich, D. Hengstler, S. Allgeier, Marvin Friedrich, A. Fleischmann, C. Enss, Sonja Bernitt, T. Morgenroth, S. Trotsenko, Reinhold Schuch, Thomas Stöhlker","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad34a2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad34a2","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this work, we present an experiment conducted at the S-EBIT-I ion trap of GSI. It involved the study of ion-electron collisions of Fe and Ba ions in various charge states with the electron beam. Characteristic X-ray radiation emitted during the continuous interaction was recorded utilizing an energy-dispersive maXs-30 detector based on metallic-magnetic calorimeter (MMC) technology. Optimizations to the applied gain-drift correction and energy calibration procedures significantly improved the achieved energy resolution compared to previous applications of a similar detector. This made it possible to individually resolve and identify overlapping X-ray lines of iron and barium in a wide spectral range. As a demonstration of the outstanding detector performance, we used the recorded spectral data to extract an estimate of the charge state distribution of Fe ions in the trap. This experiment campaign marks an important milestone in the ongoing effort to enable the deployment of MMC detectors for future high-precision measurements in fundamental physics experiments.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140237474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using ‘designer’ coherences to control electron transfer in a model bis(hydrazine) radical cation: can we still distinguish between direct and superexchange mechanisms?","authors":"Mercè Deumal, Jordi Ribas-Ariño, Michael A Robb","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad2e31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad2e31","url":null,"abstract":"We have simulated two mechanisms, direct and superexchange, for the electron transfer in a <italic toggle=\"yes\">model Bis(hydrazine) Radical Cation</italic>, which consists of two hydrazine moieties coupled by a benzene ring. The computations, that are inspired by the attochemistry approach, focus on the electron dynamics arising from a coherent superposition of four cationic states. The electron dynamics, originating from a solution of the time dependent Schrödinger equation within the Ehrenfest method, is coupled to the relaxation of the nuclei. Both direct (<italic toggle=\"yes\">ca</italic>. 15 fs dynamics) and superexchange (<italic toggle=\"yes\">ca.</italic> 2 fs dynamics) mechanisms are observed and turn out to lie on a continuum depending on the strength of the coupling of the benzene bridge electron dynamics with the hydrazine chromophore dynamics. This contrasts with the chemical pathway approach where the direct mechanism is completely non-adiabatic via a conical intersection, while the superexchange mechanism involves an intermediate radical with the unpaired electron localized on the benzene ring. Thus, with the attochemistry-inspired electron dynamics approach, one can distinguish direct from superexchange mechanisms depending on the strength of the coupling of two types of electron dynamics: the slow hydrazine dynamics (<italic toggle=\"yes\">ca</italic>. 15 fs) and the fast benzene linker dynamics (<italic toggle=\"yes\">ca.</italic> 2 fs). In this model bis(hydrazine) radical cation, only when the intermediate coupler is in an anti-quinoid state, does one see the coupling of the bridge and hydrazine chromophore dynamics.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140316089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the coupling of three-level quantum refrigerators in the weak coupling limit","authors":"M.H. Ben Abdou Chakour, A. El Allati, Y. Hassouni","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad341d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad341d","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 We propose a model of two identical autonomous quantum refrigerators that interact through their qubits coupled to cold thermal baths. We consider the same specific disposition for each refrigerator related to a three-level system coupled to different thermal baths and, in turn, to a qubit as the object to be cooled. By coupling the two systems, we show that under certain conditions on the model parameters, the devices can operate in the regime of an independent autonomous quantum refrigerator or be subject to an adjustment of the thermodynamic performances. We further investigate the correlations induced by the interaction between the two refrigerators, and illustrate their behavior with respect to their thermodynamic performances. We have found that adjusting the different interaction constants of the model can lead to an evolution of the quantum correlations of the two machines that is inversely related to the behavior of the thermodynamic quantities of both refrigerators. However, this is not necessarily the case when the temperatures of the model are considered as the reference parameters.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140243804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Both experimental and molecular dynamics approaches highlight the central role of interfacial water for radical production by irradiated gold nanoparticles","authors":"Emilie Brun, Rika Tandiana, Manon Gilles, Yannis Cheref, Nguyen-Thi Van-Oanh, Carine Clavaguera, Cécile Sicard-Roselli","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad2e28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad2e28","url":null,"abstract":"Nanoparticles devoted to improve radiotherapy treatments are an efficient tool if they can induce the formation of deleterious species in the tumor. Their interaction with radiation is responsible for radical production but in spite of the numerous studies mostly with cells, no consensus has been reached about radical formation mechanism. In order to gain knowledge in the physico-chemical step of this phenomenon, we applied a very sensitive test to quantify hydroxyl radicals and electrons produced when gold atoms, organized as nanoparticles or as a salt in solution, are irradiated by keV and MeV photons (x- and <italic toggle=\"yes\">γ</italic>- rays). The crucial role of interfacial water is suggested to explain the high quantity of radicals measured for nanoparticles. These experimental data were supplemented by classical molecular dynamics simulations, revealing a specific organization of the water hydrogen bonding network at the nanoparticle surface which could be a key component in the mechanism of radical production by irradiated colloidal suspensions.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140316246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Production and protection of entanglement via vacuum induced coherences","authors":"Anjali N Nair, R Arun","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad2d5d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad2d5d","url":null,"abstract":"The entanglement dynamics of a pair of three-level V-type atoms decaying spontaneously in a common vacuum reservoir is investigated. Under the condition that the decaying transitions in the atoms have parallel dipole moments, the effect of coherences induced by spontaneous emission is considered in the atomic dynamics. We show that vacuum-induced coherence (VIC) and collective effects in atomic decay play a significant role in the creation of entanglement. By using negativity as a measure of entanglement, we study the time evolution of entanglement for initial separable and generalized Dicke states as well as maximally entangled qutrit states. We show that the effects of VIC enhance the production of entanglement from initial separable states of the atoms. We also show that the entanglement can be protected in steady-state for atoms evolving from initial entangled states. The amount of entanglement that can be preserved is more in the presence of VIC than in its absence.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140316243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaoyu Liu, Zhiqiang Ji, Chenglong Wu, Shasha Li, Hong Wu, Feng Li, Yong Pu
{"title":"High harmonic generation in monolayer indium nitride","authors":"Xiaoyu Liu, Zhiqiang Ji, Chenglong Wu, Shasha Li, Hong Wu, Feng Li, Yong Pu","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad2e2e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad2e2e","url":null,"abstract":"In our work, we theoretically investigate high harmonic generation (HHG) in monolayer hexagonal indium nitride (<italic toggle=\"yes\">h</italic>-InN) based on the semiconductor Bloch equation under strong laser fields. Compared with <italic toggle=\"yes\">h</italic>-BN, there is no multiplateau in <italic toggle=\"yes\">h-</italic>InN. This is because the intraband mechanism dominates the total HHG, and the harmonic generated by the intraband current is about three orders of magnitude higher than that generated by the interband polarization. We find that the higher order part of the HHG is mainly supplied by the interband current, which can be analyzed on the basis of the transition dipole moments between the energy bands. In addition, we found that the HHG of <italic toggle=\"yes\">h</italic>-InN is sensitive to the external strains due to the modified band dispersion in the electronic structures. This study provides a useful reference for understanding the microscopic mechanism of laser-solid interaction.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140316088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Haozhen Li, Yang Lan, Ran Zeng, Miao Hu, Mengmeng Xu, Xiuwen Xia, Jingping Xu, Yaping Yang
{"title":"Controllable single-photon transport mediated by a time-modulated Jaynes–Cummings model","authors":"Haozhen Li, Yang Lan, Ran Zeng, Miao Hu, Mengmeng Xu, Xiuwen Xia, Jingping Xu, Yaping Yang","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad2e2b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad2e2b","url":null,"abstract":"Controllable single-photon scattering in a one-dimensional waveguide coupled to a Jaynes–Cummings structure containing a time-modulated two-level atom interacting with a single-mode cavity is investigated. The photon transmission and reflection amplitudes are calculated by using an effective Floquet Hamiltonian in real space. The results show that the coupling between the atom and the cavity mode can dynamically be tuned via periodically modulating the atomic transition frequency. As a consequence, the scattering behaviors of the waveguide photons can be actively manipulated, and a controllable single-photon switch with high on-off ratio could be realized. More interestingly, the switch works well within a wide frequency region, i.e., the transmission of both resonant and off-resonant waveguide photons can be effectively switched on or off with appropriate system parameters. Furthermore, the proposed dynamically tunable switching scheme is robust against atomic dissipation associated with the help of atom-cavity coupling mismatch. Such single-photon device can be used as an elementary unit for various quantum information processing.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140316090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}