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Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roberta Zambrini , Alessandra Gatti , Luigi Lugiato , Maxi San Miguel

We theoretically investigate polarization properties of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and influence of decoherence induced by environment on BEC polarization through introducing four BEC Stokes operators which are quantum…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Le-Man Kuang , Jin-Hui Li , Bambi Hu

Stokes parameters (${\bf S}$) in Poincar\'e sphere are very useful values to describe the polarisation state of photons. However, the fundamental principle of the nature of polarisation is not completely understood, yet, because we have no…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-23 Shinichi Saito

Quantum entanglement constitutes a pivotal resource, serving as a fundamental cornerstone within the field of quantum information science. In recent years, the study of vortex light entanglement has garnered widespread attention due to its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Fan Meng , Hao Zhu , Xin-Yao Huang , Guo-Feng Zhang

When polarized light is absorbed by an atom, the excited atomic system carries information about the initial polarization of light. For the light that carries an orbital angular momentum, or the twisted light, the polarization states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Andrei Afanasev , Carl E. Carlson , Hao Wang

Vortices are topological objects representing the circular motion of a fluid. With their additional degree of freedom, the 'vorticity', they have been widely investigated in many physical systems and different materials for fundamental…

Better versions of separability conditions for four mode optical fields, i.e. two beams with two modes of mutually orthogonal polarization are given. Our conditions involve variances. Their meaning is intuitive and their implementation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-06 Bianka Woloncewicz , Tamoghna Das , Marek Żukowski

By means of the variational method and numerical simulations, we demonstrate the existence of stable 3D nonlinear modes, viz. vortex ``bullets'', in the form of pulsed beams carrying orbital angular momentum, that can self-trap in a 2D…

Perfect optical vortices (POVs) provide an enabling solution to address the predicament induced by the strong dependence of classical optical vortices on theirs carried topological charges. Here, a type of generalized POVs with controllable…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-18 Junjie Yu , Chaofeng Miao , Jun Wu , Changhe Zhou

Accurate calibration of polarization dependent optical elements is often necessary in optical experiments. A versatile polarimeter device to measure the polarization state of light is a valuable tool in these experiments. Here we report a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-09-22 T. A. Wilkinson , C. E. Maurer , C. J. Flood , G. Lander , S. Chafin , E. B. Flagg

We study spatially localized optical vortices created by self-trapping of partially incoherent light with a phase dislocation in a biased photorefractive crystal. In a contrast to the decay of coherent self-trapped vortex beams due to the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Kristian Motzek , Yuri S. Kivshar , Ming-Feng Shih , Grover A. Swartzlander

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

It is well known that the entanglement of a quantum state is invariant under local unitary transformations. It dictates, for example, that the degree of entanglement of a photon pair in a Bell state remains maximally entangled during…

Let $V$ be a norm-closed subset of the unit sphere of a Hilbert space $H$ that is stable under multiplication by scalars of absolute value 1. A {\em maximal vector} (for $V$) is a unit vector $\xi\in H$ whose distance to $V$ is maximum…

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It is shown that electromagnetic vortices can act as beam guides for charged particles. The confinement in the transverse directions is due to the rotation of the electric and magnetic fields around the vortex line. Large class of exact…

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We consider cross-spectral purity in random nonstationary electromagnetic beams in terms of the Stokes parameters representing the spectral density and the spectral polarization state. We show that a Stokes parameter being cross-spectrally…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-24 Jyrki Laatikainen , Ari T. Friberg , Tero Setälä

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

We present an approach that enables complete control over the amplitude, phase and arbitrary polarization state on the Poincar\'e sphere of an optical beam in a 4-f system with a spatial light modulator (SLM). The beams can be constructed…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-29 Hao Chen , Tianxiang Huang , Jianping Ding , Guoqiang Li

Recently interesting observations on electron vortex beams, which have angular momentum about the center of the vortex beams, have been made. We have shown that the basic features of the electron vortex beams in a uniform magnetic field are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Yeong Deok Han , Taeseung Choi

We consider two-dimensional (2D) localized vortical modes in the three-wave system with the quadratic ($\chi ^{(2)}$) nonlinearity, alias nondegenerate second-harmonic-generating system, guided by the isotropic harmonic-oscillator (HO)…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Arnaldo Gammal , Boris A. Malomed