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We study gapless phases in (3+1)d in the presence of 1-form and non-invertible duality symmetries. Using the Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) approach, we classify the gapless symmetry-protected (gSPT) phases in these setups, with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-02 Andrea Antinucci , Christian Copetti , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

Compact interferometers, called phasemeters, make it possible to operate over a large range while ensuring a high resolution. Such performance is required for the stabilization of large instruments dedicated to experimental physics such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-03 Jennifer Watchi , Sam Cooper , Binlei Ding , Conor M. Mow-Lowry , Christophe Collette

The discovery of magnetic fields close to the M87 black hole using Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) by the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration utilized the novel concept of "closure traces", that are immune to element-based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-01 Joseph Samuel , Rajaram Nityananda , Nithyanandan Thyagarajan

In order to measure the radial displacements of facets on surface of a growing spherical Cu_{2-\delta}Se crystal with sub-nanometer resolution, we have investigated the reliability and accuracy of standard method of Fourier analysis of…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jadranko Gladic , Zlatko Vucic , Davorin Lovric

The goal of synthetic aperture imaging is to estimate the reflectivity of a remote region of interest by processing data gathered with a moving sensor which emits periodically a signal and records the backscattered wave. We introduce and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

While characterization of coherent wavefields is essential to laser, x-ray and electron imaging, sensors measure the squared magnitude of the field, rather than the field itself. Holography or phase retrieval must be used to characterize…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 David J. Brady , Timothy J. Schulz , Chengyu Wang

Interferometers provide a highly sensitive means to investigate and exploit the coherence properties of light in metrology applications. However, interferometers come in various forms and exploit different properties of the optical states…

In this paper, we describe the principle of a multi-aperture interferometer that uses a phase-shifting technique and is suitable for quick, snapshot imaging of astrophysical objects at extreme angular resolution through Fourier inversion. A…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Francois Henault

A high-sensitive interferometric scheme is presented. It is based on homodyne detection and squeezed vacuum phase properties. The resulting phase sensitivity scales as $\delta\phi \simeq {1/4} \bar{n}^{-1}$ with respect to input photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Matteo G. A. Paris

We calculate the geometric phase for an open system (spin-boson model) which interacts with an environment (ohmic or nonohmic) at arbitrary temperature. However there have been many assumptions about the time scale at which the geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando C. Lombardo , Paula I. Villar

Measurement technology employing optical interference phenomena such as a fringe pattern or frequency shift has been evolving for more than a century. The systems are being designed better, and their components are being built better. But…

A novel interferometric method - SLIVER (Super Localization by Image inVERsion interferometry) - is proposed for estimating the separation of two incoherent point sources with a mean squared error that does not deteriorate as the sources…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-16 Ranjith Nair , Mankei Tsang

Interferometry with ultracold atoms promises the possibility of ultraprecise and ultrasensitive measurements in many fields of physics, and is the basis of our most precise atomic clocks. Key to a high sensitivity is the possibility to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-07-08 Julian Grond , Joerg Schmiedmayer , Ulrich Hohenester

Speckle interferometry is an established optical metrology tool for the characterization of rough objects. The raw phase, however, is impaired by the presence of phase singularities, making the unwrapping procedure ambiguous. In a Michelson…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-11 Klaus Mantel , Vanusch Nercissian

It is a challenge for Phase Measurement Profilometry (PMP) to measure objects with a large range of reflectivity variation across the surface. Saturated or dark pixels in the deformed fringe patterns captured by the camera will lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-23 Minmin Wang , Guangliang Du , Canlin Zhou , Chaorui Zhang , Shuchun Si , Hui Li , Zhenkun Lei , YanJie Li

Kernel phase interferometry is an approach to high angular resolution imaging which enhances the performance of speckle imaging with adaptive optics. Kernel phases are self-calibrating observables that generalize the idea of closure phases…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Benjamin J. S. Pope

A simple non-interferometric approach for probing the geometric phase of a structured Gaussian beam is proposed. Both the Gouy and Pancharatnam-Berry phases can be determined from the intensity distribution following a mode transformation…

Using a kinematic approach we show that the non-adiabatic, non-cyclic, geometric phase corresponding to the radiation emitted by a three level cascade system provides a sensitive diagnostic tool for determining the entanglement properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 S. N. Sandhya , Subhashish Banerjee

We demonstrate laser interferometry based on phase difference between the two arms of the interferometer. The experiments are done with a Cs atomic vapor cell at room temperature and use atomic coherence. The interference can be tuned from…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Mangesh Bhattarai , Sumanta Khan , Vasant Natarajan , Kanhaiya Pandey

Diverse applications in photonics and microwave engineering require a means of measurement of the instantaneous frequency of a signal. A photonic implementation typically applies an interferometer equipped with three or more output ports to…