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Main Authors: de Vos, T. D. C., Postema, J. J., Schaap, B. H., Di Piazza, A., Luiten, O. J.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.17807
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  • An accessible tabletop source for the production of entangled x rays is crucial for the field of high-energy quantum optics. Here, we present a detailed analysis of the entanglement and polarization of the two photons emitted by an electron in an intense laser wave (nonlinear double-Compton scattering), by working within the framework of strong-field QED. By identifying contributions to the emission probability stemming from the electron being either on-shell or off-shell between the two-photon emissions, we show that the entangled photons are generated via the off-shell contribution for moderate beam energies, which are realizable on a tabletop setup. We propose an experiment to produce and isolate pairs of entangled x rays, through spectral filtering.