Two-Photon Coherent Control of Atomic Collisions by Light with Entangled Polarization
Mark D. Havey, Dmitriy V. Kupriyanov, Igor M. Sokolov · Physical Review Letters · 2000
We describe a new method of coherent optical control of internal dynamics of atomic collisions by means of two correlated light beams having entangled polarizations. We show that, if excitation of a colliding pair of atoms is by two photons having entangled polarizations, it is possible to redirect the output fragments of the collision into certain channels with a selected type of internal transition symmetry. The transition symmetry is defined in the body-fixed coordinate frame which has random and originally unknown orientation in space.