English
Related papers

Related papers: Reply to comment on 'Spatial Coherence and Optical…

200 papers

The degenerate case of normal incidence and reflection of an optical beam (both paraxial and non-paraxial) at a plane isotropic dielectric interface, which is azimuthally symmetric in terms of the momentum-spatial variation of Fresnel…

We examine an exactly solvable model of decoherence - a spin-system interacting with a collection of environment spins. We show that in this model (introduced some time ago to illustrate environment-induced superselection) generic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 W. H. Zurek , F. M. Cucchietti , J. P. Paz

The search for quantum coherence based on isolated atoms integrated with a room temperature solid state device (so-called atomchip [1-3]) has been intensifying in the last decade, with advances being made towards applications such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 Shuyu Zhou , David Groswasser , Mark Keil , Yonathan Japha , Ron Folman

We investigate the spatio-temporal dynamics of coupled chaotic systems with nonlocal interactions, where each element is coupled to its nearest neighbors within a finite range. Depending upon the coupling strength and coupling radius, we…

Our conventional system of physical units is based on local or microscopic {\it dimensional} quantities which are {\it defined}, for convenience or otherwise aesthetic reasons, to be spacetime-independent. A more general choice of units may…

General Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Meir Shimon

Yuan and Feng [Eur. Phys. J. Plus 138:70, 2023] recently proposed a modification of the nested Mach-Zehnder interferometer experiment performed by Danan et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111:240402, 2013] and argued that photons give "contradictory"…

The law of reflection and Snell's law are among the tenets of geometrical optics. Corrections to these laws in wave optics are respectively known as the angular Goos-H\"anchen shift and Fresnel filtering. In this paper we give a positive…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-27 Jörg B. Götte , Susumu Shinohara , Martina Hentschel

In General Relativity and gauge field theory, one often encounters a claim, which may be called the boundary problem, according to which "boundaries break diffeomorphism and gauge symmetries". We argue that this statement has the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 J. François , L. Ravera

We study the effect of the double potentials (barrier, well) on the Goos-H\"anchen (GH) shifts in phosphorene. We determine the solutions of the energy spectrum associated with the five regions that make up our system. By studying the phase…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Jilali Seffadi , Hocine Bahlouli , Ahmed Jellal

We present a class of diffraction-free partially coherent beams each member of which is comprised of a finite power, non-accelerating Airy bump residing on a statistically homogeneous, Gaussian-correlated background. We examine free-space…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-01 Morteza Hajati , Vincent Sieben , Sergey A. Ponomarenko

The intrinsic spin-orbit coupling in the 2D staggered monolayer semiconductors is very large as compared to graphene. The large spin orbit interaction in these materials leads to the opening of a gap in the energy spectrum and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Muzamil Shah , Muahmmad Sabieh Anwar

A particle beam may undergo an anomalous spatial shift when it is reflected at an interface. The shift forms a vector field defined in the two-dimensional interface momentum space. We show that, although the shift vector at individual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Ying Liu , Zhi-Ming Yu , Cong Xiao , Shengyuan A. Yang

The spin dependent reflection at the interface is the key element to understand the spin transport. By completely solving the scattering problem based on first principles method, we obtained the spin resolved reflectivity spectra. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuan Xu , Xi Mi , Y. Z. Wu , Ke Xia

We present the first experimental observation of modulation instability of partially spatially incoherent light beams in non-instantaneous nonlinear media. We show that even in such a nonlinear partially coherent system (of…

We present a novel fundamental effect that for the matter waves the space-averaging free-fall point of quantum particles undergoes a spin-dependent transverse shift in the gravitational field of Earth. This effect is similar to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-10 Zhen-Lai Wang , Xiang-Song Chen

Partially coherent light beams are encountered both in classical and in quantum optics. Their coherence properties generally depend on the correlation properties of their sources. In this paper, we propose a technique for controlling the…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-24 Mayukh Lahiri , Emil Wolf

We show that temporal two-photon interference effects involving the signal and idler photons created by parametric down-conversion can be fully characterized in terms of the variations of two length parameters--called the biphoton…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-11 Anand Kumar Jha , Malcolm N. O'Sullivan , Kam Wai Clifford Chan , Robert W. Boyd

The quantum Goos-H\"{a}nchen shift for ballistic electrons is investigated in a parabolic potential well under a uniform vertical magnetic field. It is found that the Goos-H\"{a}nchen shift can be negative as well as positive, and becomes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-08-08 Xi Chen , Xiao-Jing Lu , Yan Wang , Chun-Fang Li

We report the experimental observation of a spatio-temporal Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference of bi-photon states of extremely high Schmidt number. Two-photon interference of 1500 spatial modes and a total of more than 3x10^6…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Fabrice Devaux , Alexis Mosset , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Eric Lantz

Model of partially coherent pulses, based on the concept of "hidden coherence", introduced recently by Picozzi and Haelterman in framework of parametric wave mixing, is presented. The nonuiform and nonstationary phase shift, while…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mikalai Karelin