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Ultrafast preparation and detection of entangled atoms.


ABSTRACT: Atoms can form a molecule by sharing their electrons in binding orbitals. These electrons are entangled. Is there a way to break a molecular bond and obtain atoms in their ground state that are spatially separated and still entangled? Here, we show that it is possible to prepare these spatially separated, entangled atoms on femtosecond time scales from single oxygen molecules. The two neutral atoms are entangled in the magnetic quantum number of their valence electrons. In a time-delayed probe step, we use nonadiabatic tunneling, which is a magnetic quantum number-sensitive ionization mechanism. We find a fingerprint of entanglement in the measured ionization probability as a function of the angle between the light's quantization axis and the molecular axis. This establishes a platform for further experiments that harness the time resolution of strong-field experiments to investigate spatially separated, entangled atoms on femtosecond time scales.

SUBMITTER: Eckart S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10491222 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Ultrafast preparation and detection of entangled atoms.

Eckart Sebastian S   Trabert Daniel D   Rist Jonas J   Geyer Angelina A   Schmidt Lothar Ph H LPH   Fehre Kilian K   Kunitski Maksim M  

Science advances 20230908 36


Atoms can form a molecule by sharing their electrons in binding orbitals. These electrons are entangled. Is there a way to break a molecular bond and obtain atoms in their ground state that are spatially separated and still entangled? Here, we show that it is possible to prepare these spatially separated, entangled atoms on femtosecond time scales from single oxygen molecules. The two neutral atoms are entangled in the magnetic quantum number of their valence electrons. In a time-delayed probe s  ...[more]

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