Physical Review aPub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.108.L021502
Haowei Xu, Hao Tang, Guoqing Wang, Changhao Li, Boning Li, P. Cappellaro, Ju Li
{"title":"Solid-state Th229 nuclear laser with two-photon pumping","authors":"Haowei Xu, Hao Tang, Guoqing Wang, Changhao Li, Boning Li, P. Cappellaro, Ju Li","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevA.108.L021502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.L021502","url":null,"abstract":"The radiative excitation of the 8.3 eV isomeric state of thorium-229 is an outstanding challenge due to the lack of tunable far-ultraviolet (F-UV) sources. In this work, we propose an efficient two-photon pumping scheme for thorium-229 using the optonuclear quadrupolar effect, which only requires a 300 nm UV-B pumping laser. We further demonstrate that population inversion between the nuclear isomeric and ground states can be achieved at room temperature using a two-step pumping process. The nuclear laser, which has been pursued for decades, may be realized using a Watt-level UV-B pumping laser and ultrawide bandgap thorium compounds (e.g., $rm ThF_4$, $rm Na_2ThF_6$, or $rm K_2ThF_6$) as the gain medium.","PeriodicalId":48702,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review a","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44101848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Physical Review aPub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1103/physreva.108.022813
M. Jiang, R. Grobe, Q. Su
{"title":"Impact of spatially periodic inhomogeneities on the photon-induced pair creation","authors":"M. Jiang, R. Grobe, Q. Su","doi":"10.1103/physreva.108.022813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.108.022813","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48702,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review a","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42954171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Physical Review aPub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.108.022420
Meng-Wei Chen, Owen Young, M. Schlosshauer, M. Beck
{"title":"Protective measurements of photon polarization using a temporal pointer","authors":"Meng-Wei Chen, Owen Young, M. Schlosshauer, M. Beck","doi":"10.1103/PhysRevA.108.022420","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.022420","url":null,"abstract":"We experimentally demonstrate protective measurements by weakly coupling the polarization of a single-photon-level field to a measurement pointer that corresponds to the arrival time of the photon. By using an optical loop, we implement a variable, controlled number (1-9) of protection and measurement stages. We demonstrate the measurement of expectation values of photon polarization by measuring arrival times while simultaneously protecting the polarization state. No knowledge of the initial photon state is required or available in our experiment, demonstrating that protective measurements provide a genuine information gain that cannot simply be reduced to a priori information about the protection procedure.","PeriodicalId":48702,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review a","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47648032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}
Physical Review aPub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1103/physreva.108.029902
Scott M. Cohen
{"title":"Erratum: Local approximation for perfect discrimination of quantum states [Phys. Rev. A \u0000107\u0000, 012401 (2023)]","authors":"Scott M. Cohen","doi":"10.1103/physreva.108.029902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.108.029902","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48702,"journal":{"name":"Physical Review a","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42894331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}