Observation of coherence in the time-reversed relativistic photoelectric effect
The photoelectric effect has been studied in the regime of hard x rays and strong Coulomb fields via its time-reversed process of radiative recombination (RR). In the experiment, the relativistic electrons recombined into the 2p3/2 excited state of hydrogenlike uranium ions, and both the RR x rays a...
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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9 September 2014
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Physical review letters
Year: 2014, Volume: 113, Issue: 11 |
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.113001 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.113001 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.113001 |
| Author Notes: | S. Tashenov, D. Banaś, H. Beyer, C. Brandau, S. Fritzsche, A. Gumberidze, S. Hagmann, P.-M. Hillenbrand, H. Jörg, I. Kojouharov, Ch. Kozhuharov, M. Lestinsky, Yu. A. Litvinov, A. V. Maiorova, H. Schaffner, V. M. Shabaev, U. Spillmann, Th. Stöhlker, A. Surzhykov, and S. Trotsenko |
| Summary: | The photoelectric effect has been studied in the regime of hard x rays and strong Coulomb fields via its time-reversed process of radiative recombination (RR). In the experiment, the relativistic electrons recombined into the 2p3/2 excited state of hydrogenlike uranium ions, and both the RR x rays and the subsequently emitted characteristic x rays were detected in coincidence. This allowed us to observe the coherence between the magnetic substates in a highly charged ion and to identify the contribution of the spin-orbit interaction to the RR process. |
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| Item Description: | Gesehen am 03.09.2020 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.113001 |