Imprinting the quantum statistics of photons on free electrons

  • Raphael Dahan
  • , Alexey Gorlach
  • , Urs Haeusler
  • , Aviv Karnieli
  • , Ori Eyal
  • , Peyman Yousefi
  • , Mordechai Segev
  • , Ady Arie
  • , Gadi Eisenstein
  • , Peter Hommelhoff
  • , Ido Kaminer*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We observe for the first time the breakdown of the wave nature of light in free-electron-light interactions. Our experiment demonstrates a new way of measuring quantum states of light using high-precision electron energy spectroscopy.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberFF1A.8
JournalOptics InfoBase Conference Papers
StatePublished - 2021
EventCLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, CLEO: QELS 2021 - Part of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 9 May 202114 May 2021

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