Storage and manipulation of single x-ray photons via nuclear hyperfine splitting

Abstract

We introduce a technique to store and manipulate single x-ray photons, which relies on dynamically controlled absorption via nuclear hyperfine magnetic splitting. This scheme is inherently suitable for storage, on-demand generation, and dynamical manipulation of single x-ray photons, for instance, the manipulation of the temporal shape, temporal splitting, the interference between x-ray photons, and the control of the polarization. Our approach provides more opportunities in x-ray quantum information.