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Electron quantum optics: partitioning electrons one by one.

We have realized a quantum optics like Hanbury Brown-Twiss (HBT) experiment by partitioning, on an electronic beam splitter, single elementary electronic excitations produced one by one by an on-demand emitter. We show that the measurement of the output currents correlations in the HBT geometry provides a direct counting, at the single charge level, of the elementary excitations (electron-hole ...

First observation of two-electron one-photon transitions in single-photon K-shell double ionization.

Experimental evidence for the correlated two-electron one-photon transitions (1s(-2)→2s(-1)2p(-1)) following single-photon K-shell double ionization is reported. The double K-shell vacancy states in solid Mg, Al, and Si were produced by means of monochromatized synchrotron radiation, and the two-electron one-photon radiative transitions were observed by using a wavelength dispersive spectromete...

Anomalously strong two-electron one-photon X-ray decay transitions in CO caused by avoided crossing

The unique opportunity to study and control electron-nuclear quantum dynamics in coupled potentials offered by the resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) technique is utilized to unravel an anomalously strong two-electron one-photon transition from core-excited to Rydberg final states in the CO molecule. High-resolution RIXS measurements of CO in the energy region of 12-14 eV are presented ...

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Photon-added one-photon and two-photon nonlinear coherent states

From the photon-added one-photon nonlinear coherent states a†m|α, f〉, we introduce a new type of nonlinear coherent states with negative values of m. The nonlinear coherent states corresponding to the positive and negative values of m are shown to be the result of nonunitarily deforming the number states |m〉 and |0〉, respectively. As an example, we study the sub-Poissonian statistics and squeez...