Light–matter interactions with photonic quasiparticles

N Rivera, I Kaminer - Nature Reviews Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Interactions between light and matter play an instrumental role in spectroscopy, sensing,
quantum information processing and lasers. In most of these applications, light is considered …

Promises and challenges of high-energy vortex states collisions

IP Ivanov - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Vortex states of photons, electrons, and other particles are non-plane-wave solutions of the
corresponding wave equation with helicoidal wave fronts. These states possess an intrinsic …

Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields

Y Shen, Q Zhan, LG Wright, DN Christodoulides… - Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Spatiotemporal sculpturing of light pulse with ultimately sophisticated structures represents a
major goal of the everlasting pursue of ultra-fast information transmission and processing as …

Optical excitations with electron beams: Challenges and opportunities

FJ Garcia de Abajo, V Di Giulio - ACS photonics, 2021 - ACS Publications
Free electron beams such as those employed in electron microscopes have evolved into
powerful tools to investigate photonic nanostructures with an unrivaled combination of …

Free-electron–light interactions in nanophotonics

C Roques-Carmes, SE Kooi, Y Yang, N Rivera… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
When impinging on optical structures or passing in their vicinity, free electrons can
spontaneously emit electromagnetic radiation, a phenomenon generally known as …

Miniature light-driven nanophotonic electron acceleration and control

R Shiloh, N Schönenberger, Y Adiv… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Dielectric laser accelerators (DLAs) are fundamentally based on the interaction of photons
with free electrons, where energy and momentum conservation are satisfied by mediation of …

Ultrafast transverse modulation of free electrons by interaction with shaped optical fields

I Madan, V Leccese, A Mazur, F Barantani… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Spatiotemporal electron-beam shaping is a bold frontier of electron microscopy. Over the
past decade, shaping methods evolved from static phase plates to low-speed electrostatic …

Quantum recoil in free-electron interactions with atomic lattices

S Huang, R Duan, N Pramanik, JS Herrin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The emission of light from charged particles underlies a wealth of scientific phenomena and
technological applications. Classical theory determines the emitted photon energy by …

Phase-locked photon–electron interaction without a laser

M Taleb, M Hentschel, K Rossnagel, H Giessen… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Ultrafast photon–electron spectroscopy in electron microscopes commonly requires ultrafast
laser setups. Photoemission from an engineered electron source is used to generate pulsed …

Superradiance and subradiance due to quantum interference of entangled free electrons

A Karnieli, N Rivera, A Arie, I Kaminer - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
When multiple quantum emitters radiate, their emission rate may be enhanced or
suppressed due to collective interference in a process known as super-or subradiance …