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An effect of geometrical phase shift is predicted for a light beam propagating in the field of a gravitational wave. Gravitational radiation detection experiments are proposed using this new effect, the corresponding estimates being given.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-15 N V Mitskievich , A I Nesterov

The twist phase of random light represents a nontrivial two-point phase, endowing the field with orbital angular momentum. Although the mutual transition of the spin and orbit angular momenta of coherent light has been revealed, the…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-13 Benli Li , Yahong Chen , Weimin Deng , Tongbiao Wang , Lipeng Wan , Tianbao Yu

We construct a semiclassical theory for propagation of an optical wavepacket in non-conducting media with periodic structures of dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability, i.e., non-conducting photonic crystals. We employ a…

Optics · Physics 2008-11-26 Masaru Onoda , Shuichi Murakami , Naoto Nagaosa

As one fundamental property of light, the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photon has elicited widespread interest. Here, we theoretically demonstrate that the OAM conversion of light without spin state can occur in homogeneous and…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-02 Zhongsheng Man , Shuoshuo Zhang , Shenggui Fu1

We investigate the role of polarization effects in orbital angular momentum modes of an optical fiber. Specifically, we revisit the removal of the degeneracy of the $HE$ and the $EH$ vector modes that exists within the weakly guiding…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-19 Ramesh Bhandari

The spin angular momentum in an elliptically polarized beam of light plays several noteworthy roles in optical traps. It contributes to the linear momentum density in a non-uniform beam, and thus to the radiation pressure exerted on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-03 David B. Ruffner , David G. Grier

We present a feasible scheme to investigate the geometric phase for an atom trapped in an optical cavity induced by the effective decay process due to cavity photon loss. The cavity mode, together with the external driving fields, acts as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-08 Shi-Biao Zheng

Inter-band photo-excitation of electron states with the twisted photons in GaAs, a direct band-gap bulk semiconductor, is considered theoretically. Assuming linearity of the quantum transition amplitudes and applying Wigner-Eckart theorem,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Maria Solyanik-Gorgone , Andrei Afanasev

Twisted photon states, or photon states with large ($> \hbar$) angular momentum projection in the direction of motion, can photoexcite atomic final states of differing quantum numbers. If the photon symmetry axis coincides with the center…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-14 Andrei Afanasev , Carl E. Carlson , Asmita Mukherjee

In this paper, we provide an accurate description of geometric phases emerging in simple optical systems -- nanostructures (metaatoms) interacting with vortex beams. We show that this interaction leads to a new class of geometric phase for…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-06 Kristina Frizyuk , Evgenii Menshikov , Mauro Spera

Multiplexing multiple orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes of light has the potential to increase data capacity in optical communication. However, the distribution of such modes over long distances remains challenging. Free-space…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-19 Yifan Liu , Zhisen Zhang , Panpan Yu , Yijing Wu , Ziqiang Wang , Yinmei Li , Wen Liu , Lei Gong

Quantum eigenstates undergoing cyclic changes acquire a phase factor of geometric origin. This phase, known as the Berry phase, or the geometric phase, has found applications in a wide range of disciplines throughout physics, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-13 J. M. Robbins

The T-reversal-violating optical gyrotropy is discussed. A new optical phenomenon of photon polarization plane rotation in a medium exposed to an electric field caused by the Stark mixing of atom (molecule) levels and T-odd phenomenon of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir G. Baryshevsky

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…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-11-19 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons is carried upon the wave front of an optical vortex and is important in physics research due to its fundamental degree of freedom. As for the interaction with materials, the optical OAM was shown to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Yoshiki Kohmura , Kei Sawada , Masaichiro Mizumaki , Kenji Ohwada , Tetsuya Ishikawa

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is a fundamental optical degree of freedom that has recently motivated much exciting research in diverse fields ranging from optical communication to quantum information. We show for the first time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Xi-Wang Luo , Xingxiang Zhou , Chuan-Feng Li , Jin-Shi Xu , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Wei Zhou

We consider a nonlinear dielectric medium surrounding a static, charged and spherically symmetric compact body which gravitational field is driven by General Relativity (GR). Considering the propagating waves on the dielectric medium, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-07 Amanda Guerrieri , Mario Novello

We develop a weak measurement scheme for measuring orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light based on the global topology in wave function. We introduce the spin-orbit coupling to transform the measurement of OAM to the pre- and postselected…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-02 Junfan Zhu , An Wang , Yurong Liu , Fuhua Gao , Zhiyou Zhang

Geometric phase phenomena in single neutrons have been observed in polarimeter and interferometer experiments. Interacting with static and time dependent magnetic fields, the state vectors acquire a geometric phase tied to the evolution…

Chirality is a fundamental concept in physics that underpins various phenomena in nonlinear optics, quantum physics, and topological photonics. Although the spin of a photon naturally brings chirality, orbital angular momentum can also…