Published November 1, 2007
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Photons in polychromatic rotating modes
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- van Enk, S. J.
- Nienhuis, G.
Abstract
We propose a quantum theory of rotating light beams and study some of its properties. Such beams are polychromatic and have either a slowly rotating polarization or a slowly rotating transverse mode pattern. We show that there are, for both cases, three different natural types of modes that qualify as rotating, one of which is a type not previously considered. We discuss differences between these three types of rotating modes on the one hand and nonrotating modes as viewed from a rotating frame of reference on the other. We present various examples illustrating the possible use of rotating photons, mostly for quantum information processing purposes. We introduce in this context a rotating version of the two-photon singlet state.
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©2007 The American Physical Society. (Received 23 July 2007; published 19 November 2007)Files
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