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Self-amplified gamma-ray laser on positronium atoms from a Bose-Einstein condensate
H K Avetissian1, A K Avetissian1, G F Mkrtchian1
1Centre of Strong Fields Physics, Yerevan State University, Yerevan 0025, Armenia.
Abstract:
A scheme of an intense coherent gamma-ray source based on the spontaneous radiation of positronium atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) due to two-photon collective annihilation decay is investigated analytically arising from the second quantized formalism. It is shown that because of the intrinsic instability of annihilation decay of BEC, the spontaneously emitted entangled photon pairs are amplified, leading to an exponential buildup of a macroscopic population into end-fire modes at a certain shape of the elongated condensate. The considered scheme may also be applied to a BEC of atoms or quasiparticles as a laser mechanism with double coherence to create entangled photonic beams with a macroscopic number of photons.

