Massive particle acceleration on a photonic chip via spatial-temporal modulation

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Free electrons can induce entanglement between photons

Gefen Baranes et al.

Summary: Free electrons can create entanglement and bunching of light in spatially separated cavities, providing a nonlocal optical nonlinearity for the creation of entanglement.

NPJ QUANTUM INFORMATION (2022)

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Article Physics, Multidisciplinary

Quantum-Coherent Light-Electron Interaction in a Scanning Electron Microscope

R. Shiloh et al.

Summary: Researchers demonstrate the quantum coherent coupling between electrons and light in a scanning electron microscope, achieving breakthrough results in low-energy electron field with potential for spatially extended and cascaded optical experiments.

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (2022)

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Article Optics

Multigrating design for integrated single-atom trapping, manipulation, and readout

Aiping Liu et al.

Summary: An on-chip multigrating device is proposed for interfacing single atoms and integrated photonic circuits. It provides a compact solution for trapping, state manipulation, and readout of single rubidium atoms, and has potential applications in single-photon sources, single-atom quantum registers, and single-atom quantum sensors.

PHYSICAL REVIEW A (2022)

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Integrated photonics enables continuous-beam electron phase modulation

Jan-Wilke Henke et al.

Summary: Integrated photonics and electron microscopy are merged to demonstrate coherent phase modulation of a continuous electron beam, enabling efficient electron-light scattering with potential applications in quantum control and sensing.

NATURE (2021)

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Editorial Material Multidisciplinary Sciences

Photonics Low-power light modifies electron microscopy

Martin Kozak

NATURE (2021)

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Review Physics, Multidisciplinary

A Review on Metasurface: From Principle to Smart Metadevices

Jie Hu et al.

Summary: Metamaterials are composed of periodic subwavelength metallic/dielectric structures that resonate with incident electromagnetic waves, exhibiting unprecedented properties. Practical application is challenging due to high losses and strong dispersion. Optical metasurfaces, as 2D metamaterials, inherit all properties while providing a solution to limitations.

FRONTIERS IN PHYSICS (2021)

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Quantum Nature of Dielectric Laser Accelerators

Yuval Adiv et al.

Summary: Dielectric laser accelerators (DLAs) show promise for economic and compact on-chip radiation sources by utilizing silicon industry fabrication capabilities and breakthroughs in silicon-photonic nanostructures. Recent research has demonstrated the quantum nature of DLAs, revealing quantized peaks in electron-energy spectra and showcasing quasi-phase-matching between electron and light waves. The use of ultrafast transmission electron microscopy (UTEM) allows for extended electron-light interaction lengths, highlighting the potential for manipulating particles' quantum wave functions in accelerator physics.

PHYSICAL REVIEW X (2021)

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Review Optics

Optical meta-waveguides for integrated photonics and beyond

Yuan Meng et al.

Summary: The advancing nanofabrication technologies have enabled the production of sophisticated optical structures on a photonic chip, reshaping the landscape of photonic integrated circuits with the integration of subwavelength-structured metasurfaces and metamaterials. The development of meta-structured waveguides synergizes various functional subwavelength photonic architectures with different waveguide platforms, offering new opportunities for applications such as photonic integrated circuits, biomedical sensing, and artificial intelligence.

LIGHT-SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS (2021)

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Electron phase-space control in photonic chip-based particle acceleration

R. Shiloh et al.

Summary: This article discusses the phase-space control of electron beams in a chip-based particle accelerator and its significance, as well as demonstrates the feasibility of acceleration through nanophotonics. The authors experimentally achieve complex electron phase-space control over extended distances in a silicon-based nanostructure, laying the foundation for the generation and applications of megaelectronvolt electron beams.

NATURE (2021)

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Quantum Wave-Particle Duality in Free-Electron-Bound-Electron Interaction

Bin Zhang et al.

Summary: The theory presents a comprehensive relativistic quantum-mechanical description of the interaction between a free electron and a bound electron. It highlights the wave-particle duality nature of the quantum electron wave packet and its potential applications in controlling superposition states and enhancing cathodoluminescence and electron energy-loss spectroscopy in electron microscopy.

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (2021)

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Imprinting the quantum statistics of photons on free electrons

Raphael Dahan et al.

Summary: This research demonstrates the transition of photon statistics effects in free-electron-light interactions and the potential for ultrafast quantum tomography of light using free electrons as probes. The electron walker can perform both quantum weak measurements and projective measurements, leading to previously inaccessible concepts in quantum optics.

SCIENCE (2021)

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