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Using a geometric approach for the propagation of light in anisotropic media, we investigate what effect the director field of disclinations may have on the polarization state of light. Parallel transport around the defect, of the spinor…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-10-24 A. M. de M. Carvalho , C. Satiro , F. Moraes

In the weak field regime, gravitational waves can be considered as being made up of collisionless, relativistic tensor modes that travel along null geodesics of the perturbed background metric. We work in this geometric optics picture to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-17 Carlo R. Contaldi

Synthetic dimensions provide a promising platform for photonic quantum simulations. Manipulating the flow of photons in these dimensions requires an electric field. However, photons do not have charge and do not directly interact with…

Ultracold atoms in optical lattices serve as a tool to model different physical phenomena appearing originally in condensed matter. To study magnetic phenomena one needs to engineer synthetic fields as atoms are neutral. Appropriately…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-11 Omjyoti Dutta , Anna Przysiezna , Jakub Zakrzewski

The equivalence between rank-2 anti-symmetric tensor fields, considered as gauge potentials, and torsionless non-linear $\sigma$-models suggests us to study the possibility of coupling tensorial matter with Yang-Mills fields, through the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. G. Negrao , A. Penna-Firme , J. A. Helayel-Neto

Quality of spatial separation between electric and magnetic fields in an electromagnetic wave is fundamentally constrained by nonlocal nature of Maxwell equations. While electric and magnetic energy densities in a wave, propagating in…

By using the gauge/gravity duality, we investigate the dual field theories of the anisotropic backgrounds, which are exact solutions of Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with a Liouville potential. When we turn on the bulk gauge field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-21 Bum-Hoon Lee , Siyoung Nam , Da-Wei Pang , Chanyong Park

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the gauge symmetry of classical field theories in integral formalism. A gauge invariant theory is defined in terms of the invariance of the physical observables under the coordinate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Chen Ying , He Bing , Lin He , Wu Ji-Min

The spin gauge field formalism has been used to explain the emergence of out of plane spin accumulation in two-dimensional spin orbit interaction (SOI) systems in the presence of an in-plane electric field. The adiabatic alignment of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 Zhuo Bin Siu , Mansoor B. A. Jalil , Seng Ghee Tan

The nonlocal and topological nature of the molecular Aharonov-Bohm (MAB) effect is examined for real electronic Hamiltonians. A notion of preferred gauge for MAB is suggested. The MAB effect in the linear + quadratic $E\otimes \epsilon$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Erik Sjöqvist

We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally a new electromagnetic lensing concept using the magnetic vector potential - in a region free of classical electromagnetic fields - via the Aharonov-Bohm effect. This toroid-shaped lens with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-24 Makoto Tokoro Schreiber , Cathal Cassidy , Menour Saidani , Matthias Wolf

Synthetic gauge fields have provided physicists with a unique tool to explore a wide range of fundamentally important phenomena. However, most experiments have been focusing on synthetic vector gauge fields. The very rich physics brought by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-04-01 Shaoliang Zhang , Chenwei Lv , Qi Zhou

We study anisotropic lattice strips in the presence of a magnetic field in the quantum Hall effect regime. At specific magnetic fields, causing resonant Umklapp scattering, the system is gapped in the bulk and supports chiral edge states in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-06 Jelena Klinovaja , Daniel Loss

We theoretically discuss a new kind of photonic spin-Hall effect (PSHE) for optical beams propagating inside an inhomogeneously twisted anisotropic material. The rotation angle plays the role of an effective gauge field. When the twisting…

The concept of wave field is introduced to represent oriented media. The wave field is a tensor field of second rank, and directors are its eigenvectors. This exhibition of directors defines a natural gauge group inherit in continua and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ivangoe B. Pestov

The independent predictions of edge ferromagnetism and the Quantum Spin Hall phase in graphene have inspired the quest of other two dimensional honeycomb systems, such as silicene, germanene, stanene, iridiates, and organometallic lattices,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 J. L. Lado , J. Fernández-Rossier

The Aharonov-Bohm effect is measured in a four-terminal open ring geometry based on a Ga[Al]As heterostructure. Two quantum dots are embedded in the structure, one in each of the two interfering paths. The number of electrons in the two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Sigrist , A. Fuhrer , T. Ihn , K. Ensslin , S. E. Ulloa , W. Wegscheider , M. Bichler

In this article we study field-theoretical aspects of multipolar topological insulators. Previous research has shown that such systems naturally couple to higher-rank tensor gauge fields that arise as a result of gauging dipole or subsystem…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-28 Oleg Dubinkin , Alex Rasmussen , Taylor L. Hughes

In this paper we consider external current QED in the Coulomb gauge and in axial gauges for various spatial directions of the axis. For a non-zero electric charge of the current, we demonstrate that any two different gauges from this class…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-04-23 Wojciech Dybalski , Benedikt Wegener

A non-local gauge symmetry of a complex scalar field, which can be trivially extended to spinor fields, was demonstrated in a recent paper (Mod.Phys.Lett. A13, 1265 (1998) ; hep-th/9902020). The corresponding covariant Lagrangian density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T K Rai Dastidar