Comparison of Spatial Entanglement between dissociated atom and ion : molecular ion photo-dissociated by sequential two-photon absorption and correlated two-photon absorption

Abstract:We have studied the fidelity of spatial entanglement between dissociated atom and ion from two photon dissociation of hydrogen molecular ion H 2 + . Two processes for two photon dissociation of molecular ion have been considered (i) sequential two photon (STP) absorption and (ii) correlated two photon (CTP) absorption by the molecular ion. We compared the results for fidelity of spatial entanglement (FSE) between dissociated atom and ion for these two types of dissociation. In a previous study in our group [1] we have shown that when an atom interact with nonlocal mode of electromagnetic field (which has been derived field theoretically), simultaneous phase-correlated two pho1 ton absorption by the atom occurs within a very short time {\delta}t << {\omega} , where {\omega} is the laser frequency, and the rate of this correlated two photon absorption is linear in intensity. This will happen when the photon flux in the interaction region is high i.e. laser intensity is higher than 10 10 W/cm 2 . In this work we have extended this formalism to study the correlated two photon dissociation of molecular ion and to explore the effect of correlation between two simultaneous photo-absorption processes on the fidelity for spatial entanglement of dissociated atom and ion. Dependence of fidelity for spatial entanglement on the photon frequency has been studied for both the STP and CTP dissociation, to show that photon frequency can be used as control parameter to achieve maximum fidelity. Saturation of fidelity with the increase in time at which fidelity was calculated shows the robustness of the processes considered here. A scheme for detection of spatial entanglement between ion and atom has been suggested.

arXiv:2607.29556 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2607.29556v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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