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The purpose of this effort is to investigate if the use of quaternion mathematics can be used to better model and simulate the electromagnetic fields that occur from moving electromagnetic charges. One observed deficiency with the commonly…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-09-30 Matthew David Marko , Joe Schaff

The Stokes formalism of polarization physics has astounding structural parallels with the formalism used for relativity theory in Minkowski spacetime. The structure and symmetry properties of the Mueller matrices are the same as those for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Jan Stenflo

The Classification of Polarization elements, the polarization affecting optical devices which have a Jones matrix representation, according to the types of eigenvectors they possess, is given a new visit through the Group-theoretical…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sudha , A. V. Gopala Rao

We show how the rotational quantum state of a linear or symmetric top rotor can be reconstructed from finite time observations of the polar angular distribution under certain conditions. The presented tomographic method can reconstruct the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Anders S. Mouritzen , Klaus Molmer

On the basis of the f-deformed oscillator formalism, we propose to construct nonlinear coherent states for Hamiltonian systems having linear and quadratic terms in the the number operator by means of the two following definitions: i) as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-03 R. Román-Ancheyta , J. Récamier

The issue raised in this paper is classical in the sense of being ancient: which subset of 4X4 matrices should be accepted as physical Mueller matrices in polarization optics? Non-quantum entanglement between the polarization and spatial…

As an expansion of complex numbers, the quaternions show close relations to numerous physically fundamental concepts. In spite of that, the didactic potential provided by quaternion interrelationships in formulating physical laws are hardly…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Erik Horn

Polar decompositions of quaternion matrices with respect to a given indefinite inner product are studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of an $H$-polar decomposition are found. In the process an equivalent to Witt's…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-22 G. J. Groenewald , D. B. Janse van Rensburg , A. C. M. Ran , F. Theron , M. van Straaten

We present a theoretical study of multi-mode scattering of light by optically random media, using the Mueller-Stokes formalism which permits to encode all the polarization properties of the scattering medium in a real $4 \times 4$ matrix.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Aiello , J. P. Woerdman

Non-linear electrodynamics arising in the frames of field theories in noncommutative space-time is examined on the base of quaternion formalism. The problem of form-invariance of the corresponding nonlinear constitutive relations governed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-09 V. M. Red'kov , E. A. Tolkachev

Orthogonal Mueller matrices can be considered either as corresponding to retarders or to generalized transformations of the polarization basis for the representation of Stokes vectors, so that they constitute the only type of Mueller…

Optics · Physics 2016-06-10 Jose J. Gil , Ignacio San Jose

This paper presents an experimental study on the application of quaternions in several machine learning algorithms. Quaternion is a mathematical representation of rotation in three-dimensional space, which can be used to represent complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Tianlei Zhu , Renzhe Zhu

Quaternions are an important tool to describe the orientation of a molecule. This paper considers the use of quaternions in matching two conformations of a molecule, in interpolating rotations, in performing statistics on orientational…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Charles F. F. Karney

In this article, we introduce and study the concept of $\textit{spherical-vectors}$, which can be perceived as a natural extension of the arguments of complex numbers in the context of quaternions. We initially establish foundational…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Lahcen Lamgouni

This work addresses the study of the oscillator algebra, defined by four parameters $p$, $q$, $\alpha$, and $\nu$. The time-independent Schr\"{o}dinger equation for the induced deformed harmonic oscillator is solved; explicit analytic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Sama Arjika , Dine Ousmane Samary , Ezinvi Baloitcha , Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou

In this paper, real matrix representations of split quaternions are examined in terms of the casual character of quaternion. Then, we give De-Moivre' s formula for real matrices of timelike and spacelike split quaternions, separately.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Melek Erdogdu , Mustafa Ozdemir

Complete determination of the polarisation state of light requires at least four distinct projective measurements of the associated Stokes vector. Stability of state reconstruction, however, hinges on the condition number $\kappa$ of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-30 Matthew R. Foreman , Alberto Favaro , Andrea Aiello

A novel single-frame quaternion estimator processing two vector observations is introduced. The singular cases are examined, and appropriate rotational solutions are provided. Additionally, an alternative method involving sequential…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-07 Caitong Peng , Daniel Choukroun

Polarization is a unique characteristic of transverse wave and is represented by Stokes parameters. Analysis of polarization states can reveal valuable information about the sources. In this paper, we propose a separable low-rank quaternion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Junjun Pan , Michael K. Ng

In a previous paper, it was shown that a soluble model can be constructed for the description of a decaying system in analogy to the Lee-Friedrichs model of complex quantum theory. It is shown here that this model also provides a soluble…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 L. P. Horwitz