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Polarization of light and topological phases
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In this article, a survey and analysis of recent work on topological phases with polarization of light is presented, which has revealed several counterintuitive features of such phase shifts such as 2 nπ anholonomies, nonlinear and discontinuous behaviour originating from high singularities, peculiar spectral dependence, etc.About:
This article is published in Physics Reports.The article was published on 1997-03-01. It has received 256 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Polarization (waves) & Quantum decoherence.read more
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Optical spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion in inhomogeneous anisotropic media
TL;DR: An optical process in which the spin angular momentum carried by a circularly polarized light beam is converted into orbital angular momentum, leading to the generation of helical modes with a wave-front helicity controlled by the input polarization is demonstrated.
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Spin-orbit interactions of light
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the fundamental origins and important applications of the main spin-orbit interaction phenomena in modern optics that play a crucial role at subwavelength scales, including spin-Hall effects in inhomogeneous media and at optical interfaces, spindependent effects in non-paraxial (focused or scattered) fields, spin-controlled shaping of light using anisotropic structured interfaces (metasurfaces).
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Generating optical orbital angular momentum at visible wavelengths using a plasmonic metasurface
Ebrahim Karimi,Sebastian A. Schulz,Israel De Leon,Hammam Qassim,Jeremy Upham,Robert W. Boyd,Robert W. Boyd +6 more
TL;DR: Karimi et al. as mentioned in this paper showed that a plasmonic metasurface comprising an array of nano-antennas can couple spin-to-orbital angular momentum at thickness much smaller than the wavelength of the light with an efficiency of around 3%.
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Space-variant Pancharatnam-Berry phase optical elements with computer-generated subwavelength gratings.
TL;DR: A theoretical analysis and experimentally demonstrate a Pancharatnam-Berry phase-based diffraction grating for laser radiation at a wavelength of 10.6microm.
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Spin-to-orbital conversion of the angular momentum of light and its classical and quantum applications
Lorenzo Marrucci,Ebrahim Karimi,Sergei Slussarenko,Bruno Piccirillo,Enrico Santamato,Eleonora Nagali,Fabio Sciarrino +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the development of the q-plate idea and some of the most significant results that have originated from it, and briefly touch on many other related findings concerning the interaction of the spin and orbital angular momentum of light.
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Phase Change During a Cyclic Quantum Evolution
Yakir Aharonov,Jeeva Anandan +1 more
TL;DR: A new geometric phase factor is defined for any cyclic evolution of a quantum system, independent of the phase factor relating the initial and final state vectors and the Hamiltonian, for a given projection of the evolution on the projective space of rays of the Hilbert space.
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Experimental realization of any discrete unitary operator.
TL;DR: An algorithmic proof that any discrete finite-dimensional unitary operator can be constructed in the laboratory using optical devices is given, and optical experiments with any type of radiation exploring higher-dimensional discrete quantum systems become feasible.
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Geometric Phases In Physics
Frank Wilczek,Alfred D. Shapere +1 more
TL;DR: In the last few years, considerable interest has been focused on the phase that waves accumulate when the equations governing the waves vary slowly as discussed by the authors, which is known as the Berry's phase.
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Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist
TL;DR: In this paper, the author describes the failure of classical mechanics and the rise of the electromagnetic field, the theory of relativity, and of the quanta, and the book is faced, page-by-page, with a translation by the noted Professor of Philosophy Paul Arthur Schilpp.