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A kinematic approach to the geometric phase for mixed quantal states in nonunitary evolution is proposed. This phase is manifestly gauge invariant and can be experimentally tested in interferometry. It leads to well-known results when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 D. M. Tong , E. Sjöqvist , L. C. Kwek , C. H. Oh

We report on the experimental implementation of a polarimeter based on a scheme known to be optimal for obtaining the polarization vector of ensembles of spin-1/2 quantum systems, and the alignment procedure for this polarimeter is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Ling , Soh Kee Pang , Antia Lamas-Linares , Christian Kurtsiefer

Originally introduced in optics, the Pancharatnam-Berry phase is a general concept of geometric phase defined for any two interfering polarization states. In electronic systems, however, its counterpart has long been overlooked due to the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-11-24 Zhigang Song , Kai Chang

We study the longitudinal spin polarization of a relativistic fluid of massive spin-1/2 particles undergoing a boost-invariant expansion in the longitudinal direction and rotating in the transverse plane. We express the polarization vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-18 Nora Weickgenannt , Jean-Paul Blaizot

Precision measurements in storage rings are increasingly limited by the ability to monitor collective spin dynamics coherently over long time scales. Existing polarimetry techniques rely on destructive scattering processes that preclude…

We consider the nonlinear extension of the Kuramoto model of globally coupled phase oscillators where the phase shift in the coupling function depends on the order parameter. A bifurcation analysis of the transition from fully synchronous…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-27 Oleksandr Burylko , Arkady Pikovsky

We proposed the procedure of measuring the unknown state of the three-level system - the qutrit, which was realized as the arbitrary polarization state of the single-mode biphoton field. This procedure is accomplished for the set of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. V. Burlakov , L. A. Krivitskiy , S. P. Kulik , G. A. Maslennikov , M. V. Chekhova

We show that a noncyclic phase of geometric origin has to be included in the approximate adiabatic wave function. The adiabatic noncyclic geometric phase for systems exhibiting a conical intersection as well as for an Aharonov-Bohm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gonzalo Garcia de Polavieja , Erik Sjoeqvist

Spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is used to reveal that a large spin polarization is observable in the bulk centrosymmetric transition metal dichalcogenide MoS2. It is found that the measured spin polarization can be…

A supersymmetric spin-1/2 particle in the noncommutative plane, subject to an arbitrary magnetic field, is considered, with particular attention paid to the homogeneous case. The system has three different phases, depending on the magnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-17 Pedro D. Alvarez , Jose L. Cortes , Peter A. Horvathy , Mikhail S. Plyushchay

We study a bipartite collective spin-$1$ model with exchange interaction between the spins. The bipartite nature of the model manifests itself by the spins being divided into two equal-sized subsystems; within each subsystem the spin-spin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-07 Dávid Jakab , Zoltán Zimborás

The geometric phase due to the evolution of the Hamiltonian is a central concept in quantum physics, and may become advantageous for quantum technology. In non-cyclic evolutions, a proposition relates the geometric phase to the area bounded…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-08-09 Zhifan Zhou , Yair Margalit , Samuel Moukouri , Yigal Meir , Ron Folman

We study the way the unitary evolution of spin 1/2 particules can be represented in a counterfactual definiteness setting. More precisely, by representing the state of such a particule by a triplet of values corresponding to the supposedly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-17 Olivier Brunet

The nature of changes in the interference pattern caused by the presence of polarization-changing elements in one or both beams of an interferometer, in particular those caused by an effective optical activity due to passage of a polarized…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rajendra Bhandari

We numerically study the SU(2)$\otimes$SU(2) symmetric spin-orbit coupled model as a lower symmetric generalization of the SU(4) exchange model. On the symmetric line with respect to the spin and orbit, our result shows the essentially…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yasufumi Yamashita , Naokazu Shibata , Kazuo Ueda

It is generally believed that dispersive polarimetric detection of collective angular momentum in large atomic spin systems gives rise to: squeezing in the measured observable, anti-squeezing in a conjugate observable, and collective spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-21 Ben Q. Baragiola , Bradley A. Chase , JM Geremia

Dynamics of exciton-polariton multistability is theoretically investigated. Phase portraits are used as a tool to enlighten the microscopic phenomena which influence spin multistability of a confined polariton field as well as ultrafast…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-18 Yoan Léger

Spin polarization measurements were performed in three 2D Electron Gases in GaAs with densities n = 9.1, 7.2 and 6.5 x10^10 cm-2, in the quantum Hall regime. Full spin polarization at v = 1 surrounded by rapid depolarization due to Skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Odysseas Williams , Stefan Faelt , Filip Krizek , Werner Wegscheider

The notion of spin squeezing has been discussed in this paper using the density matrix formalism. Extending the definition of squeezing for pure states given by Kitagawa and Ueda in an appropriate manner and employing the spherical tensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 K. S. Mallesh , Swarnamala Sirsi , Mahmoud A. A. Sbaih , P. N. Deepak , G. Ramachandran

The average electron spin-polarization $\cal P$ of two-dimensional electron gas confined in $\rm GaAs/GaAlAs$ multiple quantum-wells was measured by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) near the fractional quantum Hall state with filling factor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 N. Freytag , Y. Tokunaga , M. Horvatic , C. Berthier , M. Shayegan , L. Levy