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Helicity is a property of light which is familiar from particle physics but less well-known in optics. In this paper we recall the explicit form taken by the helicity of light within classical electromagnetic theory and reflect upon some of…

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Phenomena of rotation and oscillations of particle spin are discussed for particles rotating in storage ring. The fact that these effects are described by spin-dependent part of zero-angle scattering amplitude allows to use them for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Vladimir G. Baryshevsky

A quantum computing circuit is presented that approximates a single spin wave quantum on a linear chain of spin 1/2 particles described by a Heisenberg Hamiltonian. The circuit is a product state where each qubit represents a spin. The spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Daniel D. Stancil , Bojko N. Bakalov , Gregory T. Byrd

The physical properties of electromagnetic waves in the presence of a gravitational plane wave are analyzed. Formulas for the Stokes parameters describing the polarization of light are obtained in closed form. The particular case of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-21 Shahen Hacyan

We develop a formalism, based on spinor-helicity techniques, to generalize the formulation of partial wave unitarity bounds. We discuss unitarity bounds for $N \to M$ (with $N,M \geq 2$) scattering processes -- relevant for high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Luigi C. Bresciani , Gabriele Levati , Paride Paradisi

The motion of a particle with a spin in spherical harmonic oscillator potential with spin-orbit interaction is studied. We have focus our attention on spatial motion of wave packets, giving a description complementary to motion of spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 P. Rozmej , R. Arvieu

We introduce a formalism for describing four-dimensional scattering amplitudes for particles of any mass and spin. This naturally extends the familiar spinor-helicity formalism for massless particles to one where these variables carry an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-02 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Tzu-Chen Huang , Yu-tin Huang

We discuss the electromagnetic measurements of rotating observers and study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in a uniformly rotating frame of reference. The phenomenon of helicity-rotation coupling is elucidated and some of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 John C. Hauck , Bahram Mashhoon

An helicity formalism for perturbative calculations is presented. It is based on the formal insertion in spinor lines of a complete set of states built up with unphysical spinors. It is particularly convenient when massive spinors are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ballestrero , E. Maina

The formulation of relativistic hydrodynamics for massive particles with spin 1/2 is shortly reviewed. The proposed framework is based on the Wigner function treated in a semi-classical approximation or, alternatively, on a classical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-17 Wojciech Florkowski

We discuss the occurence and properties of exact singular anyonic wave functions describing stationary states of two identical charged particles moving on a plane and under the influence of a perpendicular uniform magnetic field.

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Ralko , T. T. Truong

Wavefunction correlations and density matrices for few or many particles are derived from the properties of semiclassical energy Green functions. Universal features of fixed energy (microcanonical) random wavefunction correlation functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Eric J. Heller , Brian R. Landry

New formulation of relativistic wave equations (RWE) for massive particles with arbitrary half-integer spins s interacting with external electromagnetic fields are proposed. They are based on wave functions which are irreducible tensors of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-17 J. Niederle , A. G. Nikitin

The derivation of the Glauber type representation for the high energy scattering amplitude of particles of spin 1/2 is given within the framework of the Dirac equation in the Foldy Wouthuysen (FW) representation and two-component formalism.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-07 Nguyen Suan Han , Le Anh Dung , Nguyen Nhu Xuan , Vu Toan Thang

High accuracy helium wave functions based on exponentials with random coefficients are transformed into momentum space. The utility of the wave functions is demonstrated through calculation of the expectation value of various operators…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Sapirstein

We develop the helicity formalism for spin-2 particles and apply it to the case of gravity in flat extra dimensions. We then implement the large extra dimensions scenario of Arkani-Hamed, Dimopoulos and Dvali in the program AMEGIC++,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Gleisberg , F. Krauss , K. Matchev , A. Schalicke , S. Schumann , G. Soff

We state several ideas based on the view-point of particle behaviour of matter to explain wave character of photon and elementary particles. By using Newton's suggestion of light ray, we clarify integrally the behaviour of light ``wave''.…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Do Minh Chi

A quasi-Keplerian parameterisation for the solutions of second post-Newtonian (PN) accurate equations of motion for spinning compact binaries is obtained including leading order spin-spin and next-to-leading order spin-orbit interactions.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Manuel Tessmer , Johannes Hartung , Gerhard Schaefer

By means of the method of moving Frenet-Serret frame the set of equations of motion is derived for spinning particle in an arbitrary external field, which is determined by potential depending from both position and the state of movement, as…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-01-08 Alexander N. Tarakanov

Recently, Theophilou (J. Chem.Phys {\bf 149} 074104 (2018)) showed that a set of spherically symmetric densities determines uniquely the external potential in molecules and solids. Here, spherically symmetric Kohn-Sham-like equations are…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Ágnes Nagy , Kalevi Kokko , Jesse Huhtala , Torbjörn Björkman , Levente Vitos