X-ray quantum optics with nuclei |
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| Jörg Evers | |
| Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg | |
| This talk will discuss the engineering of advanced nuclear multi-level schemes in experimentally relevant settings. Multi-level schemes are a basic requirement for the exploration of advanced nonlinear and quantum effects with nuclei. As main example, I will consider so-called spontaneously generated coherences. Because of their fascinating properties, they have been suggested in numerous theoretical works for a multitude of applications. But so far, they could could only be observed indirectly in few experiments. I will explain how nuclei embedded in a thin film cavity probed with x-rays in grazing incidence allow to directly observe SGC, and discuss recent experimental results [3].
[1] A. Palffy, C. H. Keitel, and J. Evers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 017401 (2009) |