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A half-mirror that divides a spin-polarized electron into two parallel copropagating spin-resolved quantum Hall edge channels one half each is presented in this study. The partition process was coherent, as confirmed by observing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Takase Shimizu , Jun-ichiro Ohe , Akira Endo , Taketomo Nakamura , Shingo Katsumoto

We calculate analytically the spin-orbital decomposition of the angular momentum using completely non-paraxial fields that have certain degree of linkage of electric and magnetic lines. The split of the angular momentum into spin-orbital…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-26 M Arrayás , J L Trueba

This two-paper series addresses and fixes the long-standing gauge invariance problem of angular momentum in gauge theories. This QED part reveals: 1) The spin and orbital angular momenta of electrons and photons can all be consistently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-09-25 X. S. Chen , X. F. Lü , W. M. Sun , F. Wang , T. Goldman

Quantum theoretical treatment of coherent forward scattering of light in a polarized atomic ensemble with an arbitrary angular momentum is developed. We consider coherent forward scattering of a weak radiation field interacting with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Kupriyanov , O. S. Mishina , I. M. Sokolov , B. Julsgaard , E. S. Polzik

The thesis presents investigations on the angular and mass distribution of fission fragments on heavy ion induced fission reactions. The present investigations address current issues in heavy ion induced fission reactions like finding the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 T. K. Ghosh

The difference in the properties of the spin correlation tensor for factorizable and nonfactorizable two-particle states is analyzed. The inequalities for linear combinations of the components of this tensor are obtained for the case of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Lednicky , V. Lyuboshitz

Precision measurement of small separations between two atoms or molecules has been of interest since the early days of science. Here, we discuss a scheme which yields spatial information on a system of two identical atoms placed in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun-Tao Chang , Joerg Evers , Marlan O. Scully , M. Suhail Zubairy

The exquisite precision of atom interferometers has sparked the interest of a large community for use cases ranging from fundamental physics to geodesy and inertial navigation. However, their practical use for onboard applications is still…

We introduce shaken lattice interferometry with atoms trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice. By phase modulating (shaking) the lattice, we control the momentum state of the atoms. Through a sequence of shaking functions, the atoms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 C. A. Weidner , Hoon Yu , Ronnie Kosloff , and Dana Z. Anderson

Experimental observation of the decoherence of macroscopic objects is of fundamental importance to the study of quantum collapse models and the quantum to classical transition. Optomechanics is a promising field for the study of such models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Matthew J. Weaver , David Newsom , Fernando Luna , Wolfgang Löffler , Dirk Bouwmeester

We discuss in detail the spatial distribution of angular momentum inside the nucleon. We show that the discrepancies between different definitions originate from terms that integrate to zero. Even though these terms can safely be dropped at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 Cédric Lorcé , Luca Mantovani , Barbara Pasquini

We engineer angular momentum eigenstates of a single atom by using a novel all-optical approach based on the interference of Laguerre-Gaussian beams. We confirm the imprint of angular momentum by measuring the two-dimensional density…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-14 Philipp Lunt , Paul Hill , Johannes Reiter , Philipp M. Preiss , Maciej Gałka , Selim Jochim

We numerically study the classical and quantum dynamics of an atomic bright soliton in a highly-elongated one-dimensional harmonic trap with a Gaussian barrier. In the regime of the recent experiment by Dyke {\it et al.}, the system…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-05-01 A. D. Martin , J. Ruostekoski

Atom interferometry with high visibility is of high demand for precision measurements. Here, a parallel multicomponent interferometer is achieved by preparing a spin-$2$ Bose-Einstein condensate of $^{87}$Rb atoms confined in a hybrid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-08-01 Pengju Tang , Peng Peng , Zhihan Li , Xuzong Chen , Xiaopeng Li , Xiaoji Zhou

Interference with atomic and molecular matter waves is a rich branch of atomic physics and quantum optics. It started with atom diffraction from crystal surfaces and the separated oscillatory fields technique used in atomic clocks. Atom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-03 Alexander D. Cronin , Joerg Schmiedmayer , David E. Pritchard

Theoretical calculations are performed to investigate the angular momentum and Coulomb effects on fragmentation and multifragmentation in peripheral heavy-ion collisions at Fermi energies. Inhomogeneous distributions of hot fragments in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-14 A. Ergun , H. Imal , N. Buyukcizmeci , R. Ogul , A. S. Botvina

We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that a coherent image of a pure phase object may be obtained by use of a spatially incoherent illumination beam. This is accomplished by employing a two-beam source of entangled photons…

Quantum sensing exploits quantum phenomena to enhance the detection and estimation of classical parameters of physical systems and biological entities, particularly so as to overcome the inefficiencies of its classical counterparts. A…

It is important to evaluate the total spin angular momentum of alkali-metal atoms if the atoms serve as a reservoir of angular momenta. We use an absorption-monitoring technique to measure <Fz>, i.e., the expectation values of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Runa Yasuda , Kei Ishii , Wolfgang Klassen , Jeffery W. Martin , Atsushi Hatakeyama

Duality in the entanglement of identical particles manifests that entanglement in only one variable can be revealed at a time. We demonstrate this using polarization and orbital angular momentum (OAM) variables of indistinguishable photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Nijil Lal , Sarika Mishra , Anju Rani , Anindya Banerji , Chithrabhanu Perumangattu , R. P. Singh