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We report successful manipulation of non-classical atomic spin states. We generate squeezed spin states by a spin quantum nondemolition measurement, and apply an off-resonant circularly-polarized light pulse to the atoms. By changing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tetsushi Takano , Shin-Ichi-Ro Tanaka , Ryo Namiki , Yoshiro Takahashi

Structural heterogeneity of amorphous solids present difficult challenges that stymie the prediction of plastic events, which are intimately connected to their mechanical behavior. Based on a perturbation analysis of the potential energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-03-03 Bin Xu , Michael L. Falk , Sylvain Patinet , Pengfei Guan

Noninteracting electrons confined to a corrugated surface are investigated in magnetic field, and the associated effective Pauli equation is given analytically by the thin-layer quantization scheme. Interestingly, the Zeeman splitting gaps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Hao Zhao , Yong-Long Wang , Run Cheng , Guo-Hua Liang , Hua Jiang , Hui Liu , Hong-Shi Zong

A pure spin current is predicted to occur when an external magnetic field and a linearly inhomogeneous spin-only field are appropriately aligned. Under these conditions (such as originate from nuclear contact hyperfine fields that do not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Nicholas J. Harmon , Michael E. Flatté

Two positive mass, spin $\frac 12$ particles created in an entangled state are studied in the presence of a constant magnetic field inducing distinct precessions, depending on the respective momenta, of the two spins. The charge and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 A. Chakrabarti

Spin polarization provides a novel probe of the rotational properties of the quark-gluon plasma formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. This work investigates the equation of state, particularly its transport and thermodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-02-12 De-Xian Wei

The position variance of a single-mode Yuen states can go below the standard quantum limit. For two-mode squeezed states, it is shown that the time-dependent evolution of the entanglement of formation can be contractive, going below that of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. W. Rendell , A. K. Rajagopal

A theoretical model of nuclear spin conversion in molecules controlled by an external electromagnetic radiation resonant to rotational transition has been developed. It has been shown that one can produce an enrichment of spin isomers and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. L. Chapovsky

We investigate the dynamical spin polarization of a massless electron probing an electron plasma in locally thermal equilibrium via the Moller scattering from the quantum kinetic theory. We derive an axial kinetic equation delineating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-12 Shuo Fang , Shi Pu , Di-Lun Yang

Electron beams in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) exert forces and torques on study samples, with magnitudes that allow the controlled manipulation of nanoparticles (a technique called electron tweezers). Related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 José Ángel Castellanos-Reyes , Jesús Castrejón-Figueroa , Alejandro Reyes-Coronado

Spin and polarization are central to precision tests of fundamental physics and for interpreting radiation from astrophysical sources and ultraintense laser-matter experiments. Predictive modeling therefore requires not only energy spectra,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-13 Samuele Montefiori , Antonino Di Piazza , Tobias Podszus , Christoph H. Keitel , Matteo Tamburini

Spin squeezing in collective atomic ensembles enables quantum-enhanced metrology by reducing noise below the standard quantum limit through nonlinear interactions. Extending the one-axis and two-axis twisting paradigms of Kitagawa and Ueda,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Chon-Fai Kam

The relation between energy and density (known as the nuclear equation of state) plays a major role in a variety of nuclear and astrophysical systems. Spin and isospin asymmetries can have a dramatic impact on the equation of state and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Sammarruca , P. G. Krastev

Semiconductor hole-spin qubits offer a promising route to quantum computation due to their weak hyperfine interaction, and strong intrinsic spin-orbit coupling enabling electric control of qubits. Scalable architectures, however, require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Madhumita Sarkar , Roopayan Ghosh , Charles G. Smith , Maksym Myronov , Sougato Bose

Deterministic light-induced spin squeezing in an atomic gas is limited by photon shot noise or, equivalently, by atomic state information escaping with the light field mediating the effective atom-atom interaction. We show theoretically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ian D. Leroux , Monika H. Schleier-Smith , Hao Zhang , Vladan Vuletić

Besides a linear momentum, optical fields carry an angular momentum (AM), which have two intrinsic components: one is spin angular momentum (SAM) related to the polarization state of the field, and the other is orbital angular momentum…

Continuous observation on an oscillator is known to result in quantum back-action which limits the knowledge acquired by the measurement. A careful balance between the information obtained and the back-action disturbance leads to a limit…

A scheme for a spin polarization direction switch is investigated by studying the spin-dependent electron transport of an asymmetrical quantum wire (QW) with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC). It is found that the magnitude of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Zhonghui Xu , Xianbo Xiao , Yuguang Chen

In this paper, we will assume that the structure picture of the rotation angles will be changed according to the scale of measurement (minimum measurable angle) and if we have a device with very high accuracy (high resolution) then we can…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Ahmad Adel Abutaleb

The starting point of all NMR experiments is a spin polarization which develops when we place the sample in static magnetic field $B_0$. There are excess of spins aligned along $B_0$ (spin up with lower energy) than spins aligned opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-22 Navin Khaneja