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Low-energy effective field theories containing a light scalar field are used extensively in cosmology, but often there is a tension between embedding such theories in a healthy UV completion and achieving a phenomenologically viable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 Anne-Christine Davis , Scott Melville

Neglecting the electric field component along the light's propagation direction is a common practice, known as paraxial approximation. However, experimental evidence and theory on the head-on excitation of atoms by Laguerre-Gaussian beams…

We investigate the static and spherically symmetric solutions of Einstein's equations for a scalar field with non-canonical kinetic term, assumed to provide both the dark matter and dark energy components of the Universe. In particular, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniele Bertacca , Nicola Bartolo , Sabino Matarrese

Multipole expansion of an incident radiation field - that is, representation of the fields as sums of vector spherical wavefunctions - is essential for theoretical light scattering methods such as the T-matrix method and generalised…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. A. Nieminen , H. Rubinsztein-Dunlop , N. R. Heckenberg

In this work, we study the stability of Hopf vector fields on Lorentzian Berger spheres as critical points of the energy, the volume and the generalized energy. In order to do so, we construct a family of vector fields using the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-03-18 Ana Hurtado

Optical singularities manifesting at the center of vector vortex beams are unstable, since their topological charge is higher than the lowest value permitted by Maxwell's equations. Inspired by conceptually similar phenomena occurring in…

The analytical solution for the propagation of the laser beam with optical vortex through the system of lenses is presented. The optical vortex is introduced into the laser beam (described as Gaussian beam) by spiral phase plate. The…

Usual Gaussian beams are particular scalar solutions to the paraxial Helmholtz equation, which neglect the vector nature of light. In order to overcome this inconvenience, Simon et al. (J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 1986, 3, 536-540) found a paraxial…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-10 A. S. Sanz , M. D. Davidovic , M. Bozic

Retrieval of classical behaviour in quantum cosmology is usually discussed in the framework of minisuperspace models in the presence of scalar fields together with the inhomogeneous modes of gravitational or scalar fields. In this work we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Bertolami , P. V. Moniz

A conformal coupling of the metric in the Jordan frame to the energy-momentum tensor, screens the scalar field gravitational coupling strength $G$ in modified gravity (MOG). The scalar field acquires a mass which depends on the local matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-14 J. W. Moffat

Optical fields provide an accessible platform to explore connections between classical and quantum mechanics. We introduce a group-theoretic framework based on the $\mathrm{su}(1,1)$ Lie algebra to construct classical analogs of…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-17 B. M. Rodríguez-Lara , F. E. Becerra

Retrieval of classical behaviour in quantum cosmology is usually discussed in the framework of minisuperspace models in the presence of scalar fields together with the inhomogeneous modes either of the gravitational or of the scalar fields.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Bertolami , P. V. Moniz

For the first time, as far as we know, in field theory are found explicit forms of propagators satisfying the K\"allen -- Lehmann representation. To be exact, it is shown that scalar meson propagators, taking into account a virtual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 N. N. Achasov , A. V. Kiselev

We study the nonlinear optical propagation of two different classes of space-varying polarized light beams -- radially symmetric vector beams and Poincar\'e beams with lemon and star topologies -- in a rubidium vapour cell. Unlike…

We have observed the spatial interactions between two ultra-weak optical beams that are initially collinear and non-overlapping. The weak beams are steered towards each other by a spatially varying cross-Kerr refractive index waveguide…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-12 Utsab Khadka , Jiteng Sheng , Min Xiao

In the context of the Loop Quantum Cosmology we have analysed the holonomy correction to the classical evolution of the simplified Bianchi I model in the presence of vector fields. For the Universe dominated by a massive vector field or by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Michal Artymowski , Zygmunt Lalak

We present a method to enhance the ripple structure of the scattered electromagnetic field in the visible range through the use of Laguerre-Gaussian beams. The position of these enhanced ripples as well as their linewidths can be controlled…

Optics · Physics 2012-11-22 Xavier Zambrana-Puyalto , Gabriel Molina-Terriza

Linear vector waves, both quantum and classical, experience polarization-driven bending of ray trajectories and polarization dynamics that can be interpreted as the precession of the "wave spin". Both phenomena are governed by an effective…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 D. E. Ruiz , I. Y. Dodin

Whether monochromatic, pulsed, or even constant and crossed, the field used to describe the interaction of charged fermions with an intense laser beam is mainly assumed to be of plane-wave form. We consider a simple extension to plane-wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-19 B. King

Luttinger holes with strong Zeemann and spin-orbit interactions in a wire proximity-coupled to a superconductor is a promising system for observation of Majorana fermions. Earlier treatments of confined Luttinger holes in wires ignored a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Jingcheng Liang , Yuli Lyanda-Geller