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Wigner's particle classification provides for "continuous spin" representations of the Poincar\'e group, corresponding to a class of (as yet unobserved) massless particles. Rather than building their induced realizations by use of "Wigner…

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This paper describes the passage of light through a system of waveplates mathematically in terms of quaternions, an extension of the complex numbers, instead of the more usual Jones vectors and Jones matrices. Both the light beam and the…

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We derive a relativistic-covariant spin operator for massive case directly from space-time symmetry in Minkowski space-time and investigate the physical properties of a derived spin operator. In the derivation we require only two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-17 Taeseung Choi , Yeong Deok Han

The basic concepts of the formulation of Maxwellian electromagnetism in the absence of a Minkowski scalar product on spacetime are summarized, with particular emphasis on the way that the electromagnetic constitutive law on the space of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Delphenich

We emphasize that the group-theoretical considerations leading to SO(10) unification of electro-weak and strong matter field components naturally extend to space-time components, providing a truly unified description of all generation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Paolo Maraner

The study of the polarization direction is crucial in the issue of restoring the spatial structure of the magnetic field in the active galaxy parsec-scale jets. But, due to relativistic effects, the magnetic field projected onto the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 Marina S. Butuzova

The Biedenharn type relativistic wavefunctions are considered on the group manifold of the Poincar\'{e} group. It is shown that the wavefunctions can be factorized on the group manifold into translation group and Lorentz group parts. A…

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We present an approach to fully characterize the polarization of general vector light beams. When attempting to generalize the notion of Stokes parameters to nonparaxial light beams in momentum space, we find that the Jones function that…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-17 Chun-Fang Li

The polarization tensor of graphene derived in the framework of the Dirac model using the methods of thermal quantum field theory in (2+1) dimensions is recast in a mathematically equivalent but more compact and convenient in computations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 G. L. Klimchitskaya , C. C. Korikov , V. M. Mostepanenko

A common view is that generalization of a wave equation on Riemannian space-time is substantially determined by what a particle is - boson or fermion. As a rule, they say that tensor equations for bosons are extended in a simpler way then…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 V. M. Red'kov

Representations of the Poincar\'{e} symmetry are studied by using a Hilbert space with a phase space content. The states are described by wave functions ( quasi amplitudes of probability) associated with Wigner functions (quasi probability…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 R. G. G. Amorim , F. C. Khanna , A. P. C. Malbouisson , J. M. C. Malbouisson , A. E. Santana

Henri Poincar\'e formulated the mathematics of the Lorentz transformations, known as the Poincar\'e group. He also formulated the Poincar\'e sphere for polarization optics. It is shown that these two mathematical instruments can be combined…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-10-15 Y. S. Kim

We study the tomography of propagators for spin systems in the context of finite-dimensional Wigner representations, which completely characterize and visualize operators using shapes assembled from linear combinations of spherical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-12 David Leiner , Steffen J. Glaser

We have found a new class of time dependent partial waves which are solutions of time dependent Schr\"odinger equation for three dimensional harmonic oscillator. We also showed the decomposition of coherent states of harmonic oscillator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Arvieu , P. Rozmej , W. Berej

We introduce a tomography approach to describe the optical response of a cavity quantum electrodynamics device, beyond the semiclassical image of polarization rotation, by analyzing the polarization density matrix of the reflected photons…

We report theoretical calculations and experimental observations of Pancharatnam's phase originating from arbitrary SU(2) transformations applied to polarization states of light. We have implemented polarimetric and interferometric methods…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 J. C. Loredo , O. Ortíz , R. Weingärtner , F. De Zela

We experimentally demonstrate the manipulation of two-orthogonal components of a spin wave in an atomic ensemble. Based on Raman two-photon transition and Larmor spin precession induced by magnetic field pulses, the coherent rotations…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shujing Li , Zhongxiao Xu , Haiyan Zheng , Xingbo Zhao , Yuelong Wu , Hai Wang , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng

The structure of the matrix elements of the energy-momentum tensor play an important role in determining the properties of the form factors $A(q^{2})$, $B(q^{2})$ and $C(q^{2})$ which appear in the Lorentz covariant decomposition of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-27 Peter Lowdon , Kelly Yu-Ju Chiu , Stanley J. Brodsky

In this work, an explicit formula is deduced for identifying the orbital angular moment (OAM) of vectorial vortex with space-variant state of polarization (SOP). Different to scalar vortex, the OAM of vectorial vortex can be attributed to…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-30 Dengke Zhang , Xue Feng , Kaiyu Cui , Fang Liu , Yidong Huang

It is shown that the momentum density of free electromagnetic field splits into two parts. One has no contribution to the net momentum due to the transversality condition. The other yields all the momentum. The angular momentum that…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-01 Chun-Fang Li