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MO: Fachverband Molekülphysik
MO 3: Interaction with Strong or Short Laser Pulses I (joint session A/MO)
MO 3.7: Talk
Monday, March 6, 2023, 12:45–13:00, F303
Testing Born’s rule via photoionization of helium — •Peter Robert Förderer1, David Busto1,2, Anne L’Huillier2, Andreas Buchleitner1,3, and Christoph Dittel1,3,4 — 1Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße 3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany — 2Department of Physics, Lund University, Box 118, 22100 Lund, Sweden — 3EUCOR Centre for Quantum Science and Quantum Computing, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Hermann-Herder-Straße 3, 79104 Freiburg, Germany — 4Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Albertstraße 19, 79104 Freiburg, Germany
We propose a protocol to test Born’s rule (a fundamental axiom of quantum mechanics) via the Sorkin test, applied to photoionization of helium, induced by the combination of an ultrashort extreme ultraviolet pulse with a trichromatic infrared laser pulse. We numerically simulate the outcome of the Sorkin test, the Sorkin parameter κ, for realistic parameters and randomly sampled, typical experimental imperfections. The latter do not only lead to a spread, but also to a systematic offset of κ from its ideal value κ=0. A determination of κ with an achievable precision of the order 10−3−10−4 is predicted, which is comparable to the precision of 10−3 reached in the best optical experiments [Kauten, et. al., New J. Phys. 19, 033017 (2017)] in the quantum regime.