Abstract
A scheme of an intense coherent gamma-ray source based on the spontaneous radiation of positronium atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) due to two-photon collective annihilation decay is investigated analytically arising from the second quantized formalism. It is shown that because of the intrinsic instability of annihilation decay of BEC, the spontaneously emitted entangled photon pairs are amplified, leading to an exponential buildup of a macroscopic population into end-fire modes at a certain shape of the elongated condensate. The considered scheme may also be applied to a BEC of atoms or quasiparticles as a laser mechanism with double coherence to create entangled photonic beams with a macroscopic number of photons.
- Received 26 March 2014
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.023904
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Synopsis
Bose-Einstein Condensates for Gamma-Ray Lasers
Published 10 July 2014
A theoretical study suggests a new way to build a gamma-ray laser from a Bose-Einstein condensate of electron-positron pairs.
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