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We consider a symmetric gap plasmon guide (a folded Kretschmann configuration) supporting both symmeric and antisymmetric coupled surface plasmons. We calculate the transverse spin under illumination from both the sides like in coherent…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-20 Samyobrata Mukherjee , S. Dutta Gupta

We show the possibility to entangle radiation modes through a simple reflection on a moving mirror. The model of an optical cavity having a movable end mirror, and supporting different modes is employed. The mechanical motion of the mirror…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Silvia Giannini , Stefano Mancini , Paolo Tombesi

The fringe pattern that allows geometrical and orbital structure information to be extracted from LIED spectra of symmetric molecules is shown to reflect a symmetry conservation principle. We show that under a field polarization which…

Symmetry is ubiquitous throughout nature and can often give great insights into the formation, structure and stability of objects studied by mathematicians, physicists, chemists and biologists. However, perfect symmetry occurs rarely so…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Nicholas Bermingham , Vanessa Robins , Katharine Turner

An extension of the Ising spin configurations to continuous functions is used for an exact representation of the Random Field Ising Model's order parameter in terms of disagreement percolation. This facilitates an extension of the recent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Michael Aizenman , Matan Harel , Ron Peled

We provide a vivid demonstration of the mechanical effect of transverse spin momentum in an optical beam in free space. This component of the Poynting momentum was previously thought to be virtual, and unmeasurable. Here, its effect is…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-29 V. Svak , O. Brobohaty , M. Siler , P. Jakl , J. Kanka , P. Zemanek , S. H. Simpson

Conformal transformation optics provides a simple scheme for manipulating light rays with inhomogeneous isotropic dielectrics. However, there is usually discontinuity for refractive index profile at branch cuts of different virtual Riemann…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-08 Lin Xu , Tomáš Tyc , Huanyang Chen

Partially coherent electromagnetic sources with cylindrical symmetry and infinite extent radiating outwards are introduced. Their 3x3 cross-spectral density matrix is given through expansions of the field components in terms of basis…

In this letter, we show that a perfect lens can be employed to make multiple objects appear like only one in the far field, leading to a new concept of illusion optics. Numerical simulations are performed to verify the functionalities for…

Optics · Physics 2011-05-10 Yadong Xu , Shengwang Du , Lei Gao , Huanyang Chen

The advent of transformation optics has lead to the initiation of designing devices and applications associated to electromagnetic wave propagation in anisotropic media. Here, a method is suggested using a coordinate transformation with…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-13 H. H. Sidhwa

A plasmonic nanoantenna probed by a plane-polarized optical field in a medium with no gain materials can show zero absorption or even amplification, while exhibiting maximal polarizability. This occurs through coupling to an adjacent…

Optics · Physics 2019-08-28 Ali Panahpour , Abolfazl Mahmoodpoor , Andrei V. Lavrinenko

In this study, the impact of non-inertial effects, caused by rotational motion, on the cylindrical perfect cloak is simulated. Also, the interactions between plane waves, Gaussian sine, and Gaussian pulse are investigated. it is shown that…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-07 Saeed Hasanpour Tadi , Babak Shokri

The fully covariant formulation of transformation optics is used to find the configuration of a cloaking device operating in an expanding universe modelled by a Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker spacetime. This spacetime cloak is used…

Optics · Physics 2015-07-23 Robert T. Thompson , Mohsen Fathi

Excitons, bound electron-hole pairs, are responsible for strong optical resonances near the bandgap in low-dimensional materials and wide-bandgap insulators. Although current ab initio methods can accurately determine exciton energies and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Muralidhar Nalabothula , Davide Sangalli , Fulvio Paleari , Sven Reichardt , Ludger Wirtz

An electric field propagating along a non-planar path can acquire geometric phases. Previously, geometric phases have been linked to spin redirection and independently to spatial mode transformation, resulting in the rotation of…

A novel polarimeter based on the asymmetry in the spacial distribution of synchrotron radiation will make for a fine addition to the existing M{\o}ller and Compton polarimeters. The spin light polarimeter consists of a set of wiggler magnet…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-03-21 Prajwal Mohanmurthy , Dipangkar Dutta

We study the backward scatterings of plane waves by reciprocal scatterers and reveal that $n$-fold ($n\geq3$) rotation symmetry is sufficient to secure invariant backscattering for arbitrarily-polarized incident plane waves. It is further…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-27 Weijin Chen , Qingdong Yang , Yuntian Chen , Wei Liu

We describe a novel phenomenon occurring when a polarized Gaussian beam of light is observed in a Cartesian reference frame whose axes are not parallel to the direction of propagation of the beam. Such phenomenon amounts to an intriguing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-27 Andrea Aiello , Christoph Marquardt , Gerd Leuchs

Since holography yields exact results, even in situations where perturbation theory is not applicable, it is an ideal framework for modeling strongly correlated systems. We extend previous holographic methods to take the dynamical charge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-26 Ulf Gran , Marcus Tornsö , Tobias Zingg

Media with symmetric inhomogeneity have been of great interest due to numerous effects which occur when electromagnetic waves propagate through such media. In general, the inhomogeneity of a certain medium means that the refraction index of…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-30 Mher Davtyan