title: Coherent Control of Nuclei and X-Rays
creator: Liao, Wen-Te
subject: ddc-530
subject: 530 Physics
description: The possibility of mutual control of nuclei and photons offered by the emerging field of  nuclear quantum optics is theoretically investigated in three different applications.   This extension of quantum optics towards nuclei is motivated by  modern  X-ray Free Electron Lasers (XFEL) which  open the possibility  to coherently control nuclear states. As a first  application  we investigate  the coherent population transfer between nuclear states in a three-level system driven by an XFEL. Such a level scheme is relevant for the triggering of isomers and might play a role for future  energy storage solutions.  The other way around, nuclei offer a platform to control single x-ray photons, which can be focused on spots essentially smaller than a single atom and used in future photonic circuits. The second part of this thesis puts forward   a nuclear forward scattering setup that allows coherent control of a single x-ray photon using $^{57}$Fe nuclei.   Finally, we show that nuclear quantum optics provides a significant improvement for detection in nuclear physics. The low-lying isomeric transition of   $^{229}$Th can be addressed by VUV lasers and provides a potential next generation  frequency standard. A main impediment is the large uncertainty of the nuclear transition frequency. Using an electromagnetically modified nuclear forward scattering setup, we show that coherence effects can reduce this uncertainty down to an unprecedented level.
date: 2013
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/14898/1/diss.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00014898
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-148982
identifier:   Liao, Wen-Te  (2013) Coherent Control of Nuclei and X-Rays.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/14898/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng